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you ever read a book that made water boil and your toenails stand on end Want to know how fucked up this country's original game plan really was This book is a fucking mind boggler.
It will leave you booking plane tickets to Prague, good. prejudice puts up iron bars I love Ron Takaki, not only has he conducted pivotal research, but his own personal story is so compelling, He also truly believes in education and has a passion for it, Here's a book that will teach you things about history that most of us don't learn in school, Read this book for a class,
Realized the obvious. Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in theth century.
This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America, In a new epilogue, Takaki argues that the social health of the United States rests largely on the ability of Americans of all races and cultures to build on an established and positive legacy of crosscultural cooperation and understanding in the comingst century.
Observing that byall Americans will be minorities, Takaki urges us to ask ourselves: Will America fulfill the promise of equality or will America retreat into its "iron cages" and resist diversity, allowing racial conflicts to divide and possibly even destroy America as a nation Incisive and provocative, Iron Cages is an essential resource for students of ethnic history and important reading for anyone interested in the history of race
relations in America.
This book talks about the hardships and racial inequalities that Asians, blacks Latinos, and other nonwhite races had to deal with and work through every day and how they strived forward through adversity and struggle to work harder even though they got less.
did not know that that ethnic studies was possible until i read this book and occupied america, Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki was an American academic, historian, ethnographer and author, .