A different mirror
Subtitle: a history of multicultural America
By: Ronald Takaki.
Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: Back Bay Books / Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780316831116
Subjects: Minorities -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: Chronicles the history of America, from colonization to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, from a multicultural point of view.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: 1993.

Bibliographical notes and references: p. 430-493.
Table of contents: title: Different mirror; title: "Tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery; title: "Giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery; title: Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation; title: No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents; title: Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America; title: Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest; title: Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore; title: "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization; title: Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees; title: Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land; title: El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America; title: To the promised land: blacks in the urban north; title: Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century.