A different mirror5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Several groups are revisited at multiple points through their history. Each chapter talks about the history of a different ethnic group, and covers over a period of time public attitudes towards the minority, public policy, laws for or against the minority, and attitude of the minority towards their situation. ![]() It deals with, in roughly sequential order, Native Americans, African Americans pre- and post-slavery era, Irish, Mexicans, Chicanos, Chinese, Japanese, Jews, and ties up the book with a current (for the time the book was written) summary of where minorities are now. It received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 1994.Ī Different Mirror deals with the subject of minority perspectives of multicultural America, incorporating quotes, folk songs, letters, telegrams, and photographs into the text. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America is a book by Ronald Takaki. ![]()
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