Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
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The stories of the different ethnic groups in America, and their respective struggles to achieve access to the most basic rights, reveal that the fine ideals were not put into practice, and that in later centuries many minority group leaders appealed to the Constitution in vain, when they were oppressed and disadvantaged.... Ronald Takaki's A different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.... Throughout the book Takaki goes on to illustrate some of the false impressions that have been promoted through a one-sided historical record, and to suggest that the modern world needs a different way of looking at the past, in order to grasp the complexity, the contradictions, and some very unpleasant truths that cast a long shadow on the present time....