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Summary:

A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: My story, our story
• Why a different mirror?
• Removing the "savages"
• The hidden origins of slavery
• The road to the reservation
• Life in slavery
• The flight from Ireland
• The war against Mexico
• From China to Gold Mountain
• Dealing with the Indians
• Japanese and "money trees"
• Jews are pushed from Russia
• Up from Mexico
• Blacks arrive in northern cities
• World War II and America's problem
• Calls for change
• New waves of newcomers
• "We will all be minorities".

Author/Creator:

Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951-

Contributors:

Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A different mirror for young people: a history of multicultural America [by Stefoff, R.]

Related Works:

Different mirror [by Takaki, R.T.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Different mirror for young people [by Stefoff, R.] (New York : Seven Stories Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9781609804848; LCCN 2012017004; OCLC Number 769425346)

Subjects:

Minorities — United States — History — Juvenile literature

United States — Race relations — Juvenile literature

United States — Ethnic relations — Juvenile literature

Cultural pluralism — United States — History — Juvenile literature

Minorities

Race relations

Ethnic relations

Cultural pluralism

United States

Genres:

Juvenile works

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 377 pages) : illustrations

Call Numbers:

J305.800973 S817di eb

ISBNs:

9781609804176 (electronic bk.)
1609804171 (electronic bk.)
9781609804848 [Invalid]
1609804848 [Invalid]
9781609804169 [Invalid]
1609804163 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

821901218