{"product_id":"a-different-mirror-for-young-people-isbn-9781644215968","title":"A Different Mirror for Young People:A History of Multicultural America","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe groundbreaking multicultural history of America, adapted for younger readers, now in a revised and updated edition with 100 pages of new material.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eSkipping Stones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e In Ronald Takaki's multicultural masterwork, the story of America includes the Native, African, Irish, Jewish, Asian, and Latino people—and many more—who made America their home, and who often fought for rights now enjoyed by all. \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror for Young People\u003c\/i\u003e is widely hailed as the most important resource to “teach [Americans] to value the nation's inescapable diversity\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) and has been adopted into middle and high school curricula around the country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new chapter and revisions throughout, University of Illinois professor A. Naomi Paik brings this “brilliant revisionist history” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) into the 21st century. The new material examines growing inequality in the U.S., the intensifying War on Terror that further targets and marginalizes immigrants, and, in the uplifting spirit of the original book, the emergence of social movements including land and water protections and migrant justice movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror for Young People\u003c\/i\u003e brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Howard Zinn's \u003ci\u003eA People's History\u003c\/i\u003e, another title in the For Young People series, Takaki's \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e offers a rich and rewarding \"people's view\" perspective on the American story.\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.\"\u003cb\u003e —Bill Bigelow, curriculum editor, \u003ci\u003eRethinking Schools\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-director, Zinn Education Project\u003c\/b\u003e | “[\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\u003e | \u003cb\u003eRONALD TAKAKI\u003c\/b\u003e (1939-2009) is recognized as one of the foremost historians of American ethnic and race studies. Born in Hawai’i to a Japanese father and a Japanese American mother, he taught UCLA’s first Black History course before joining UC Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies in 1972. Takaki was a vocal proponent of multicultural education, regularly appearing on programs such as NBC’s \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e and PBS’s \u003ci\u003eNewshour\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of many acclaimed books, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eStrangers from a Distant Shore: A History of Asian Americans\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eREBECCA STEFOFF\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than 100 nonfiction books for children and young adults, and she has adapted several best-selling history books for younger readers, including Howard Zinn's \u003ci\u003eA Young People's History of the United States\u003c\/i\u003e published by Seven Stories Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. NAOMI PAIK\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of Criminology, Law, \u0026amp; Justice and Global Asian Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her book \u003ci\u003eRightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps since World War II\u003c\/i\u003e won the AAAS Best Book in History and was a runner-up for the John Hope Franklin prize for best book in American Studies. | \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":48759429300453,"sku":"NP9781644215968","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644215968.jpg?v=1775598512","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-different-mirror-for-young-people-isbn-9781644215968","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}