{"product_id":"a-different-mirror-for-young-people-isbn-9781609804169","title":"A Different Mirror for Young People","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDifferent Mirror \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1993, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003ecalled 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 \u003ci\u003eA People's History of the United States \u003c\/i\u003efor younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror for\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYoung People\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDifferent Mirror for Young People \u003c\/i\u003ebrings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's \u003ci\u003eA People's History\u003c\/i\u003e, Takaki's \u003ci\u003eA\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDifferent Mirror \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a rich and rewarding \"people's view\" perspective on the American story.\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/i\u003e: My Story, Our Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter One\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWhy a Different Mirror?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Two\u003c\/i\u003e: Removing the “Savages”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Three\u003c\/i\u003e: The Hidden Origins of Slavery\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Four\u003c\/i\u003e: The Road to the Reservation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Five\u003c\/i\u003e: Life in Slavery\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Six\u003c\/i\u003e: The Flight from Ireland\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Seven\u003c\/i\u003e: The War Against Mexico\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Eight\u003c\/i\u003e: From China to Gold Mountain\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Nine\u003c\/i\u003e: Dealing with the Indians\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Ten\u003c\/i\u003e: The Japanese and “Money Trees”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e: Jews are Pushed from Russia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Twelve\u003c\/i\u003e: Up from Mexico\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Thirteen\u003c\/i\u003e: Blacks Arrive in Northern Cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Fourteen\u003c\/i\u003e: World War II and America’s Ethics Problem\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Fifteen\u003c\/i\u003e: Calls for Change\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Sixteen\u003c\/i\u003e: New Waves of Newcomers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChapter Seventeen\u003c\/i\u003e: “We Will All Be Minorites”\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eIndex“[\u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e is] a splendid achievement, a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history. The research is meticulous, the writing powerful and eloquent, with what can only be called an epic sweep across time and cultures.” \u003cb\u003e—Howard Zinn\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This 375-page book would be an excellent way to include multi-ethnic materials in the classroom as a way to ensure that your students see their unique identities reflected in their coursework.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eSkipping Stones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror \u003c\/i\u003eadvances a truly humane sense of American possibility.” \u003cb\u003e—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The 'mirror' that Ronald Takaki holds up to the United States reflects a multicultural history of oppression and exploitation, but also struggle, solidarity, and community. In the most profound sense, this is a people's history of our country. Takaki shows what has torn us apart, yet what knits us together. This young people's version of A Different Mirror will introduce a new generation to Takaki's pathbreaking scholarship.\"\u003cb\u003e —Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools, and co-director, Zinn Education Project\u003c\/b\u003eRONALD TAKAKI (1939-2009) was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. He is the author of the multiple award-winning books \u003ci\u003eStrangers from a Distant Shore: A History of Asian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAmericans \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREBECCA STEFOFF specializes in writing nonfiction for young readers, with a focus on scientific, historical, and literary subjects. She previously explored the subject of evolution in \u003ci\u003eCharles Darwin and the Evolution Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford University Press, 1996) and the four-volume series \u003ci\u003eHumans: An Evolutionary History\u003c\/i\u003e (Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010). Stefoff has also written on exploration, forensic investigation, and archaeology, among other topics. In addition to writing her own books, Stefoff has adapted several important nonfiction works for young audiences: \u003ci\u003eA Young People's History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Howard Zinn's bestselling classic of progressive history\u003ci\u003e; Before Columbus: The Americas in 1491\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Charles C. Mann's ground-breaking new look at the archaeology of the pre-Columbian Americas; and \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror for Young People\u003c\/i\u003e, based on a major work of scholarship by ethnic historian Ronald Takaki.\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Story, Our Story \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI was going to be a surfer, not a scholar.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI was born and grew up in Hawaii, the son of a Japanese immigrant father and a Japanese-American mother who had been born on a sugarcane plantation. We lived in a working-class neighborhood where my playmates were Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, and Hawaiian. We did not use the word multicultural, but that’s what we were: a community of people from many cultural, national, and racial backgrounds.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMy father died when I was five, and my mother remarried a Chinese cook. She had gone to school only through the eighth grade, and my stepfather had very little education, but they were determined to give me a chance to go to college. My passion as a teenager, though, was surfing. My nickname was “Ten Toes Takaki,” and when I sat on my board and gazed at rainbows over the mountains and the spectacular sunsets over the Pacific, I wanted to be a surfer forever.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThen, during my senior year in high school, a teacher inspired me to think about the problems of the world and of being human and to ask, “How do you know what you know?” In other words, how do you know if something is true? The same teacher inspired me to attend college outside Hawaii, which is how I found myself at the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1957.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCollege was a culture shock for me. The student body was not very diverse, and my fellow students asked me, “How long have you been in this country? Where did you learn to speak English?” To them, I did not look like an American or have an American-sounding name. When I fell in love with one of those students, Carol Rankin, she told me that her parents would never approve of our relationship, because of my race.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCarol was right. Her parents were furious. Still, we decided to do what was right for us. When we got married, her parents reluctantly attended. Four years later, when our first child was born, her parents came to visit us in California. After I said, “Let me help you with the luggage, Mr. Rankin,” Carol’s father replied, “You can call me Dad.” His racist attitudes, it turned out, were not frozen. He had changed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBy that time I was working on my Ph.D. degree in American history. I became a college professor at the University of California in Los Angeles and taught the school’s first course in African American history. In 1971, I moved to the University of California at Berkeley to teach in a new Department of Ethnic Studies. In the decades that followed, I developed courses and degree programs in comparative ethnic studies, and I wrote several books about America’s multicultural history. My extended family, too, became a multicultural, mixed-race group that now includes people of Japanese, Vietnamese, English, Chinese, Taiwanese, Jewish, and Mexican heritage.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eI have come to see that my story reflects the story of multicultural America—a story of disappointments and dreams, struggles and triumphs, and identities that are separate but also shared. We must remember the histories of every group, for together they tell the story of a nation peopled by the world. As the time approaches when all Americans will be minorities, we face a challenge: not just to understand the world, but to make it better. \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e studies the past for the sake of the future.","brand":"Triangle Square","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299817541861,"sku":"NP9781609804169","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609804169.jpg?v=1767720430","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-different-mirror-for-young-people-isbn-9781609804169","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}