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Summary. Analysis. Ronald Takaki describes flying into Norfolk, Virginia, and talking to the taxi driver who collects him from the airport. During the conversation, the driver asks how long Takaki has been in the United States, commenting that his English is very good. Takaki explains that his grandfather immigrated to the US from Japan in the ...
A Different Mirror Summary. Ronald Takaki, the author of the book, finds that people often do not see him as “American” despite the fact that his ancestors emigrated from Japan in the 1880s. He knows that this is thanks to what he calls the “Master Narrative of American history,” which falsely asserts that the United States is a white ...
As a work of history, A Different Mirror is teeming with historical events. Some of the most significant include Columbus’s “discovery” of the land that became the United States in 1492, and the arrival of the first twenty Africans on American shores in 1619. The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1855 drove millions of Irish immigrants to the ...
Chapter 1 Summary: “A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America”. Takaki begins Chapter 1 by discussing an encounter with a taxi driver in Norfolk, Virginia. He had just flown in from San Francisco to give a keynote speech at a conference about multicultural education. The taxi driver, a white man in his forties, asks Takaki how ...
“While Takaki’s subtitle is ‘a history of multicultural America,’ his book is also a manifesto for the future.” —New York Review of Books “A Different Mirror demonstrates that employing a multicultural approach to American history is a necessary first step toward the binding together of our disunited nation.” —Detroit Free Press
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a different mirror for young people. This text has been adapted from the 529-page book (1993, 2008) by Ronald Takaki (1939–2009). Takaki’s scholarship focused on the racial and ethnic diversity of the United States and how those differences have both enriched and troubled the coun-try. After the introductory chapter, a rationale for ...
Overview. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki is a revisionist account of American history that provides an in-depth view of America as a country populated and built by diverse peoples of the world. Originally published in 1993 by Little, Brown and Company, this study guide uses the updated 2008 edition.
