A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki wasrecognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of ADifferent Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of Americathat 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 foryounger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror forYoung People.Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, ADifferent 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 ADifferent Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.

 

This book is part of a book series called For Young People .

There are 378 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by Seven Stories Press, U. S. .

Jared Diamond is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. He is Professor of Geography at UCLA and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Rebecca Stefoff is the author of numerous books for young readers on subjects including animals, exploration, famous people, geography, history, science and inventions.