A Different Mirror

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ADIFFERENTMIRRORA History ofMulticultural AmericaREVISED EDITIONRonald TakakiCopyright 1993, 2008 by Ronald TakakiAll rights reserved. Except as permitted under the Copyright Act of 1976, no part of thispublication may by reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in adatabase or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the revised edition, December 2008 Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown andCompany, June 1993This book is dedicated tomy wife,CAROL,for our forty-nine years of friendship,our joyous journey through a lifetime of scholarship,and our ceaseless collaborationin recovering and writing Americanhistory s missing for Ronald Takaki sA Different Mirror In our increasingly diverse society, the issues of race, ethnicity, and religion are often at the forefrontof American consciousness, and always in the backs of our minds, shaping our own identi

A DIFFERENT MIRROR The Making of Multicultural America I HAD FLOWN from San Francisco to Norfolk and was riding in a taxi. The driver and I chatted about the weather and the tourists. The sky was cloudy, and twenty minutes away was Virginia Beach,

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