A Different Mirror grapples with American history even before its so-called “discovery” by European colonizer Christopher Columbus until contemporary times, when questions of how to handle the swelling numbers of undocumented immigrants in the US remain both pressing and unanswered.
His overarching purpose in sharing the multiethnic reality of the US is to “let America be America again,” a phrase he borrows from poet Langston Hughes. In A Different Mirror, Takaki seeks to illuminate the exploitation and class struggles that ethnic groups endure in the US, and give voice to those people’s hopes and dreams about the country. He also had a formative influence on Ethnic Studies as an academic field more generally. After earning his PhD in American history from the University of California, Berkley, he went on to teach Black Studies at UCLA and develop the Ethnic Studies program at Berkley. He was born in Hawaii to Japanese-American parents, and notes in his book that because of this, people often don’t see him as American-even though his ancestors immigrated to the United States from Japan all the way back in the 1800s. Ronald Takaki is the author of A Different Mirror. Author’s Note: Epistemology and Epiphany.Part 4, Chapter 17: “We Will All Be Minorities”.Part 4, Chapter 16: Again, the “Tempest-Tost”.Part 4, Introduction: The Problem of the Color Lines.Part 3, Chapter 13: To “the Land of Hope”.Part 3, Chapter 11: The Exodus from Russia.Part 3, Chapter 9: The “Indian Question”.Part 3, Introduction: The End of the Frontier.Part 2, Chapter 8: Searching for Gold Mountain.Part 2, Chapter 7: “Foreigners in Their Native Land”.Part 2, Chapter 6: Fleeing “the Tyrant’s Heel”.Part 2, Chapter 5: “No More Peck o’Corn”.
Part 2, Chapter 4: Toward “the Stony Mountains”.Part 2, Introduction: The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom.Part 1, Chapter 3: The Hidden Origins of Slavery.Part 1, Chapter 2: The “Tempest” in the Wilderness.Part 1, Introduction: Before Columbus: Vinland.
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