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Mirror to America

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374707049
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Mirror to America written by John Hope Franklin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of Chicago's history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world's most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that. From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation for arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin's life and this nation's racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.

A Different Mirror

Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1456611062
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book A Different Mirror written by Ronald Takaki and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.

A Different Mirror for Young People

Author : Ronald Takaki
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609804171
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book A Different Mirror for Young People written by Ronald Takaki and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

Mirror of America

Author : David Harmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mirror of America written by David Harmon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mirror Test

Author : J. Kael Weston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351135
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror Test written by J. Kael Weston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Choice A Military Times Best Book of the Year A powerfully written firsthand account of the human costs of conflict. J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department in some of the most dangerous frontline locations. Upon his return home, while traveling the country to pay respect to the dead and wounded, he asked himself: When will these wars end? How will they be remembered and memorialized? What lessons can we learn from them? These are questions with no quick answers, but perhaps ones that might lead to a shared reckoning worthy of the sacrifices of those—troops and civilians alike—whose lives have been changed by more than a decade and a half of war. Weston takes us from Twentynine Palms in California to Fallujah in Iraq, Khost and Helmand in Afghanistan, Maryland, Colorado, Wyoming, and New York City, as well as to out-of-the-way places in Iowa and Texas. We meet generals, corporals and captains, senators and ambassadors, NATO allies, Iraqi truck drivers, city councils, imams and mullahs, Afghan schoolteachers, madrassa and college students, former Taliban fighters and ex-Guantánamo prison detainees, a torture victim, SEAL and Delta Force teams, and many Marines. The overall frame for the book, from which the title is taken, centers on soldiers who have received a grievous wound to the face. There is a moment during their recovery when they must look upon their reconstructed appearance for the first time. This is known as “the mirror test.” From an intricate tapestry of voices and stories—Iraqi, Afghan, and American—Weston delivers a larger mirror test for our nation in its global role. An unflinching and deep examination of the interplay between warfare and diplomacy, this is an essential book—a crucial look at America now, how it is viewed in the world and how the nation views itself.

Reggin America in the Mirror

Author : Y.M. Srotsecna
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728315891
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Reggin America in the Mirror written by Y.M. Srotsecna and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-06-17 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric is not racist—or at least he thought he wasn’t. That would be tested on the night he went out to celebrate becoming partners with one of the most prestigious law firms in Mississippi. While out with his friends William and Sean, Eric has an encounter with a cabdriver. This leads to one of the most extraordinary events of his life. Follow Eric as he goes through decade after decade of American history with one exception: everything is exactly the same except that the skin tones are reversed. This will be one of the most talked-about books in a long time, along with an ending that will leave you in awe.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Author : Barry Denenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439194464
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book Mirror, Mirror on the Wall written by Barry Denenberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1932, a twelve-year-old girl who lost her sight in an accident keeps a diary, recorded by her twin sister, in which she describes life at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.

America and the Four Japans

Author : Frederik L. Schodt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book America and the Four Japans written by Frederik L. Schodt and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable overview of the ever-changing relationship between Japan and the United States.

Star-Spangled Mirror

Author : Richard J. Kerry
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742542891
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Star-Spangled Mirror written by Richard J. Kerry and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the candidate's late father Richard J. Kerry and updated with a foreword by John Kerry's biographer and an afterword by an Associate Editor at The New Republic, the book is a unique look at the political thought of John Kerry's key influence.

New York is Not America

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book New York is Not America written by Ford Madox Ford and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America in an Arab Mirror

Author : Kamal Abdel-Malek
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230620353
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book America in an Arab Mirror written by Kamal Abdel-Malek and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel accounts by Arab writers who have visited America between 1668 and 2009. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds, so their descriptions of America differently engage and revise Arab pre-conceptions of Americans and the West. The country figures as everything from the unchanging Other, the very antithesis of the Arab self, to the seductive female, to the Other who is both praiseworthy and reprehensible.

The Other Mirror

Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691050171
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Other Mirror written by Miguel Angel Centeno and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin American experiences with a two-fold purpose. They seek to deepen our understanding of Latin America and the problems it faces. And, by testing social science paradigms against a broader variety of cases, they pursue a better and truly generalizable map of the social world. Bringing universal theory into dialogue with specific history, the contributors consider what forms Latin American variations of classical themes might take and which theories are most useful in describing Latin America. For example, the Argentinian experience reveals the limitations of neoclassical descriptions of economic development, but Charles Tilly's emphasis on the importance of war and collective action to statemaking holds up well when thoughtfully adapted to Latin American situations. Marxist structural analysis is problematic in a region where political divisions do not fully expresses class cleavages, but aspects of Karl Polanyi's socioeconomic theory cross borders with relative ease. This fresh theoretical discussion expands the scope of Latin American studies and social theory, bringing the two into an unprecedented conversation that will benefit both. Contributors are, in addition to the editors, Jeremy Adelman, Jorge I. Domínguez, Paul Gootenberg, Alan Knight, Robert M. Levine, Claudio Lomnitz, John Markoff, Verónica Montecinos, Steven C. Topik, and J. Samuel Valenzuela.

The Buried Mirror

Author : Carlos Fuentes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395924990
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The Buried Mirror written by Carlos Fuentes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Spanish culture in Spain and the Americas traces the social, political, and economic forces that created that culture.

A Young People's History of the United States

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1583229450
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book A Young People's History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume to The People Speak, the film adapted from A People's History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn in the volumes of A Young People’s History of the United States presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.

To America

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743202756
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book To America written by Stephen E. Ambrose and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history.

Trick Mirror

Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510559
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Trick Mirror written by Jia Tolentino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Mirror Magic

Author : Linda Chapman
Publisher : Tiger Tales
ISBN 13 : 1680104586
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Mirror Magic written by Linda Chapman and published by Tiger Tales. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in magic? Mia and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures unfolds in this new chapter book series featuring black and white illustrations throughout. Mia and her star animal, a fox named Bracken, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. Mia's older sister has started acting strangely and the Star Animals sense dark magic at work. Soon Mia discovers that the new compact mirror that her sister, Cleo, has been using must be to blame. Can the girls use their newfound Star Magic to help make things right? In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends -- they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventures awaits!