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156:, and ties up the book with a current (for the time the book was written) summary of where minorities are now. Each chapter talks about the history of a different ethnic group, and covers over a period of time public attitudes towards the minority, public policy, laws for or against the minority, and attitude of the minority towards their situation. Several groups are revisited at multiple points through their history. 38: 127:
deals with the subject of minority perspectives of multicultural America, incorporating quotes, folk songs, letters, telegrams, and photographs into the text. It deals with, in roughly sequential order,
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One common theme throughout the entire book is the 'us against them' attitude that the ruling structure has towards the minorities, from the fear of the "giddy multitude" in colonial times, to the
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A related theme of the book is the pattern of capitalist owners pitting different immigrant groups against one another, as a strike-breaking tactic. For example, the book relates that the
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was unsuccessful in persuading Chinese workers to join the 1878 Chicago shoemakers' strike, when the latter were recruited as strikebreakers by shoe factory owners.
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being created to 'protect' white labor, to the modern day accusations that "Hispanics tak jobs away from 'Americans'"
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A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Ronald Takaki
Back Bay Books
ISBN
978-0316831116
Ronald Takaki
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
American Book Award
Native Americans
African Americans
Irish
Chicanos
Chinese
Japanese
Jews
Chinese Exclusion Act
Order of the Knights of St. Crispin
Timeline of labor issues and events
Multiculturalism
Race and ethnicity in the United States
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in America: A Reference Handbook.
ISBN
978-1-57607-983-6
OCLC 53006740
"How '10-toes Takaki' changed U.S. history,"
"Ronald Takaki - a Multicultural Life,"
Categories
1993 non-fiction books
American history books

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