| A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices Contributor(s): Takaki, Ronald (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316311626 ISBN-13: 9780316311625 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: A Larger Memory emerges from eighteenth-century archives and yesterday's headlines -- a sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries, and oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children, and others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, "speak" side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text. Among them, the young slave Frederick Douglass learns to read; a fifteen-year-old Irish-American girl speaks at a labor rally; a Native American performs as an "Indian" in a Wild West show; a Japanese American fights heroically in World War II; an illegal Mexican immigrant renounces her artistic dreams to provide a future for her son; affirmative action helps a black youth obtain a university education and escape from the inner city. Takaki skillfully weaves these voices and others to create a dynamic conversation about the diverse nature of the American experience. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 98012931 |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.6" W x 8.52" (1.14 lbs) 384 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text. |