A different mirror : a history of multicultural America / Ronald Takaki.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-493) and index.

1. A different mirror --

Part one: boundlessness, 2. The "tempest" in the wilderness: the racialization of savagery -- 3. The "giddy multitude": the hidden origins of slavery --

Part two: borders, 4. Toward the stony mountains: from removal to reservation -- 5. No more peck o' corn: slavery and its discontents -- 6. Emigrants from Erin: ethnicity and class within white America -- 7. Foreigners in their native land: manifest destiny in the Southwest -- 8. Searching for gold mountain: strangers from a pacific shore --

Part three: distances, 9. The "Indian question": from reservation to reorganization -- 10. Pacific crossings: seeking the land of money trees -- 11. Between "two endless days": the continuous journey to the promised land -- 12. El Norte: the borderland of Chicano America -- 13. To the promised land: Blacks in the urban North --

Part four: crossings, 14. Through a glass darkly: toward the twenty-first century.

"A dramatic retelling of our nation's past by today's preeminent multiculturalism scholar, Ronald Takaki, this book examines America's history in 'a different mirror' — from the perspective of the minority peoples themselves. Beginning with the colonization of the 'New World' and ending with the Los Angeles riots of 1992, this book recounts the history of America in the voices of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States — Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others — groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. In this significant work of scholarship, Professor Takaki grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American." -- From the back cover.