A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States—Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others—groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.\ Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work...
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Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States—Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others—groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Among the new additions to the book are:—The role of black soldiers in preserving the Union—The history of Chinese Americans from 1900-1941—An investigation into the hot-button issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico—A look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan.This new edition of A Different Mirror is a remarkable achievement that grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.
1 A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America 3Part 1 FoundationsBefore Columbus: Vinland 232 The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers 26Shakespeare's Dream About America 27English Over Irish 28English Over Indian 30Virginia: To "Root Out" Indians as a People 34New England: The "Utter Extirpation" of Indians 37Stolen Lands: A World Turned "Upside Down" 443 The Hidden Origins of Slavery 49A View from the Cabins: Black and White Together 51"English and Negroes in Armes": Bacon's Rebellion 57"White Over Black" 62Part 2 ContradictionsThe Rise of the Cotton Kingdom 754 Toward "the Stony Mountains": From Removal to Reservation 79Andrew Jackson: "To...Tread on the Graves of Extinct Nations" 79The Embittered Human Heart: The Choctaws 83"The Trail of Tears": The Cherokees 87"American Progress": "Civilization" Over "Savagery" 915 "No More Peck o' Corn": Slavery and Its Discontents 98"North of Slavery" 99Was "Sambo" Real? 102Frederick Douglass: Son of His Master 113Martin Delany: Father of Black Nationalism 118"Tell Linkum Dat We Wants Land" 1226 Fleeing "the Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland 131Behind the Emigration: "John Bull Must Have the Beef" 132An "Immortal Irish Brigade" of Workers 137Irish "Maids" and "Factory Girls" 145"Green Power": The Irish "Ethnic" Strategy 1517 "Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico 155"We Must Be Conquerors or We Are Robbers" 155Anglo Over Mexican 1648 Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore 177Pioneersfrom Asia 178Twice a Minority: Chinese Women in America 191A Colony of "Bachelors" 195A Sudden Change in Fortune: The San Francisco Earthquake 200"Caught in Between": Chinese Born in America 203Part 3 TransitionsThe End of the Frontier: The Emergence of an American Empire 2099 The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization 214The Massacre at Wounded Knee 214Where the Buffalo No Longer Roam 216Allotment and Assimilation 220The Indian "New Deal": What Kind of a "Deal" Was It? 22510 Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees" 232Picture Brides in America 233Tears in the Canefields 237Transforming California: From Deserts to Farms 252The Nisei: Americans by Birth 25911 The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms 262A Shtetl in America 267In the Sweatshops: An Army of Garment Workers 271Daughters of the Colony 275Up from "Greenhorns": Crossing Delancey Street 28012 El Norte: Up from Mexico 292Sprinkling the Fields with the Sweat of Their Brows 295Tortillas and Rotis: Mixed Marriages 300On the Other Side of the Tracks 302The Barrio: A Mexican-American World 30713 To "the Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North 311"The Wind Said North" 312The Crucible of the City 318Black Pride in Harlem 325"But a Few Pegs to Fall": The Great Depression 332Part 4 TransformationsThe Problem of the Color Lines 33914 World War II: American Dilemmas 341Japanese Americans: "A Tremendous Hole" in the Constitution 342African Americans: "Bomb the Color Line" 350Chinese Americans: To "Silence the Distorted Japanese Propaganda" 359Mexican Americans: Up from the Barrio 361Native Americans: "Why Fight the White Man's War?" 367Jewish Americans: A "Deafening Silence" 371A Holocaust Called Hiroshima 38015 Out of the War: Clamors for Change 383Rising Winds for Social Justice 383Raisins in the Sun: Dreams Deferred 396Asian Americans: A "Model Minority" for Blacks? 40216 Again, the "Tempest-Tost" 405From a "Teeming Shore": Russia, Ireland, and China 406Dragon's Teeth of Fire: Vietnam 411Wars of Terror: Afghanistan 418Beckoned North: Mexico 42617 "We Will All Be Minorities" 434Author's Note: Epistemology and Epiphany 441Notes 447Index 519
\ From the Publisher"A valuable survey of the American experience of several racial and ethnic minorities: readable popular history in the mode of Takaki's Strangers from a Different Shore." —-Kirkus\ \
