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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 ADifferent 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 forYoung People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, ADifferent 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 ADifferent Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.… (más)
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Dedicated to our grandchildren-- Nicholas, Alexis, Zoe, Cooper, and Mia Takaki; Rachel and Tanner Aikens
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I was going to be a surfer, not a scholar. (Introduction, Ronald T. Takaki)
I once flew from San Francisco to Norfolk, Virginia, to give a speech at a teachers' conference on multicultural education.
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Woven into our multicultural national story are the heartfelt verse of African American poet Langston Hughes, who wrote,
Let America be America again. ......................................... Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- ......................................... Equality is in the air we breathe.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
An adaptation, intended for young people, of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (Little, Brown & Co., c1993, rev. ed. 2008).
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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 ADifferent 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 forYoung People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, ADifferent 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 ADifferent Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
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