Why read A Different Mirror?

Book cover of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

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Ronald Takaki's "brilliant revisionist history of America" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities - Native Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others - who helped create this country's…

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Race relations

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American history

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Different Mirror as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ben Railton

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There have been Asian Americans for as long as there’s been an America, and indeed in places like California Asian communities were there before the United States was.

That’s just one of the countless surprising and crucial lessons that I first learned from Takaki’s sweeping and magisterial history of the U.S., and every time I dip back into this book, I learn something new about where we’ve been, who we are, and what we can be if we better remember all of our communities and stories.

I am inspired every day by what Takaki accomplished and shared and what his…

From Ben's list on folks who are frustrated by but still love America.