A different mirror : a history of multicultural America

by Ronald T. Takaki.
Boston : Little, Brown & Co., ©1993.

Summary: A presentation of American history from a multi-cultural perspective, focusing on a broader and comparative approach to enhance the possibility of understanding and appreciating America’s racial and cultural diversity.

Contents:
“Tempest” in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery —
“Giddy multitude”: the hidden origins of slavery —
Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation —
No more peck o’ corn: slavery and its discontents —
Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America —
Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the southwest —
Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a Pacific shore —
“Indian question”: from reservation to reorganization —
Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees —
Between “two endless days”: the continuous journey to the promised land —
El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America —
To the promised land: blacks in the urban north —
Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century