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.

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Product Description: In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerges to illustrate the country's multicultural struggles and victories during World War II. We hear from a Japanese-American at an internment camp; a Native American code breaker using the Navajo language for the first time; a Mexican-American woman, "Rosarita, the riveter," who was able to work a job during wartime other than as a housecleaner or a maid...read more

Documents efforts by Asian Americans to voice their experiences in regard to events such as the Japanese-American relocation camps during World War II, cultural biases, and racism

Until now, the story of America's role in World War II has been presented primarily through the lives of powerful policymakers and generals, or through the heroism of American soldiers of predominantly European ancestry. Historian Ronald Takaki's multicultural history offers a different perspective. In Double Victory, history is told through the lives of ordinary, ethnically diverse Americans - a Tuskegee pilot wanting to fly and fight for freedom, a Navajo code talker using his native language to transmit battle messages, a Mexican-American woman riveting B-29 bombers in an airplane factory, a Japanese American feeling betrayed by his own government, and a Jewish-American soldier at Buchenwald pressing human ashes into his palm so that he would never forget what he had seen.

Compares the experiences of Blacks, American Indians, Mexicans, and Asians in white society during the nineteenth-century (view table of contents)

Including individuals from the first wave of immigrants in the 1840s, the author tells the story of some of the Asian-Americans who came to this country and the obstacles they faced here

A concise study of America's use of atomic weapons during World War II questions the military necessity of dropping the bomb and suggests that desire for intimidation, anti-Asian sentiment, and Harry Truman's personality were all significant factors. Reprint. K. NYT.

Fifty years after the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, a prize-winning historian explores the decision to drop the bomb through a study of the personalities and emotions of the players involved, especially President Harry Truman. Tour.

Recounts immigration from India to the United States, and discusses the difficulty of retaining traditional culture while adapting to life in a new land

Recounts the experiences of Koreans immigrants, many of whom fled the Japanese occupation of Korea, and describes how they adjusted to their new lives

Product Description: With the collapse of the American military mission in Southeast Asia in the mid-1970s, thousands of Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees began their long and perilous journey to a new and uncertain future in the United States...read more

Discusses recent immigrants from China, the Philippines, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia

Recounts the exeriences of Filipino immigrants

Describes the internment of Japanese Americans and the heroism of Japanese American soldiers

Recounts the exeriences of Filipino immigrants

Describes the experiences of first-generation and second-generation Japanese Americans, and recounts the legal obstacles and discrimination they faced

A multicultural scholar chronicles the history of America, from colonization to the 1992 Los Angeles riots, from the perspective of minorities

Product Description: Now featuring a new section on public policy, and a wide range of new essays by many of the liveliest and most exciting figures in ethnic studies, this updated edition of a remarkably successful text introduces students to the diverse points of view on race and ethnicity in the U...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the experiences of the first Chinese American communities

Describes the experiences of first-generation and second-generation Japanese Americans, and recounts the legal obstacles and discrimination they faced

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