A Different Mirror - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Different Mirror write by Ronald Takaki. This book was released on 2012-06-05. A Different Mirror available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.
A Different Mirror for Young People
A Different Mirror for Young People - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Different Mirror for Young People write by Ronald Takaki. This book was released on 2012-10-30. A Different Mirror for Young People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Strangers from a Different Shore
Strangers from a Different Shore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers from a Different Shore write by Ronald T. Takaki. This book was released on 2012-11. Strangers from a Different Shore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream. He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
Counting on Community
Counting on Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Counting on Community write by Innosanto Nagara. This book was released on 2015-09-29. Counting on Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Counting on Community is Innosanto Nagara's follow-up to his hit ABC book, A is for Activist. Counting up from one stuffed piñata to ten hefty hens--and always counting on each other--children are encouraged to recognize the value of their community, the joys inherent in healthy eco-friendly activities, and the agency they posses to make change. A broad and inspiring vision of diversity is told through stories in words and pictures. And of course, there is a duck to find on every page!
The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear
The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear write by Gerry Spence. This book was released on 2020-09-22. The Martyrdom of Collins Catch the Bear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The search for justice for a Lakota Sioux man wrongfully charged with murder, told here for the first time by his trial lawyer, Gerry Spence. This is the untold story of Collins Catch the Bear, a Lakota Sioux, who was wrongfully charged with the murder of a white man in 1982 at Russell Means’s Yellow Thunder Camp, an AIM encampment in the Black Hills in South Dakota. Though Collins was innocent, he took the fall for the actual killer, a man placed in the camp with the intention of compromising the reputation of AIM. This story reveals the struggle of the American Indian people in their attempt to survive in a white world, on land that was stolen from them. We live with Collins and see the beauty that was his, but that was lost over the course of his short lifetime. Today justice still struggles to be heard, not only in this case but many like it in the American Indian nations.
