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PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316311626
ISBN-139780316311625
eBay Product ID (ePID)313217
Product Key Features
Book TitleLarger Memory : a History of Our Diversity, with Voices
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicMinority Studies, Discrimination & Race Relations
GenreSocial Science
AuthorRonald Takaki
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight10.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-012931
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal305.8/00973
SynopsisA 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberE184.A1T3375 1998
