A Different Mirror (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Takaki
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The 1400’s to the late twentieth century
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Racism, Immigration or emigration, Minorities, Capitalism, Toleration
- Locales: United States
Near the end of this multicultural history of the United States, historian Ronald Takaki articulates the thesis and the goal of his book. Citing Gloria Anzaldua’s concept of a borderland, “a place where ’two or more cultures edge each other,”’ he concurs with her that an “inner struggle” to understand the American cultural heritage must take place before Americans can change their troubled society. This understanding “must ultimately be ground in ’unlearning’ much of what we have been told about America’s past and substituting a more inclusive and accurate history...
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