Summary Of Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror

At this time in U.S. history, the United States was beginning to emerge as a global power and the effects of expansion would only aid in supporting the economy, boosting international trade and contributing to the vision of American exceptionalism. While the idea of conquering new territories and countries seemed to be an appealing temptation to most, it cannot go unsaid that the doctrines of manifest destiny and imperialism were extremely contested and controversial to many other citizens, especially those who suffered from the battles, wars, and hardships as a direct result of westward expansion and imperialism. Through a comprehensive analysis, the intricate relationship between frontier and empire during the nineteenth and twentieth century will be delineated while focusing on both the benefits and damages brought about by efforts to expand domestically and

Chapter five in Takaki’s “A Different Mirror” focused primary on the African-American experience 1700s through the end of the Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction. The experience of reading these chapters after learning about the continued degradation of Native Americans lent itself to continued feelings of hopelessness regarding the beginnings of U.S. history. For a moment, I felt deep shame at the actions of the founders of the United States, especially those who were the head of the country, in that time President Andrew Jackson. Slavery was not only a "peculiar institution" but also one that forced landowners to dismiss that they were exploiting fellow human beings for profit. Takaki discussed four major figures before, during, and

Takaki’s book, A Different Mirror, offers the multicultural history of the United States. This book provides the reader with the American experience of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Jewish Americans. During this time, America demonstrated manifest destiny and the Master Narrative. They were led by the belief of “white purity,” which these ethnic groups threatened. America exhibited supremacy over all of these ethnic groups. Takaki’s work allows me to become aware of the history and the outcomes of manifest destiny and the Master Narrative.

After I readied Chapter one of Takaki’s book ‘A different Mirror’, he let me have a lot of different reviews about American history. In this book, the author Ronald Takaki focus study race and ethnicity inclusively and comparatively, and he writes " we will focus on several of them that illustrate and illuminate the landscape of our society's diversity." I am from China and I am an Asian American just like Takaki. People always thoughts American’s people is white or black. I remember when I was in The US Army, A group people talked about who they are and where are they from. One white man said I am an American, he looked at me said you are Chinese and he looked at other person said you are Mexican. Why he think he is an American, and another rice is not an American. Most of the American textbook does not have a lot of information about multicultural, but

As the professor James W Loewer, author of the book, referred that Americans have lost touch with their history. Our teachers and textbooks play important roles in our history study. However, it is their eliding and misrepresenting factoids that have been obstacles in our history studying. Because access to too much errors and distortion, many Americans can hardly understand the past of the country. As a result, we lack the ability to reflect on what’s going on right now and in the future.

During the manifests destiny era, the white settlers of our new country were full of land-lust, they didn't think twice before taking ownership of land. "...Facts demonstrate at once our disconnected position as regards any other nation; that we have, in reality, but little connection with the past history of any of them,

In the 19th century the manifest destiny was a belief that the expansion of the United States was justified and inevitable. In 1776 the Indian people and European imperial powers controlled most of North American and its people. 80 years later the great territorial expansion that lasted as an ongoing process that caused hours, days, months and years of hard labor continued that caused warfare among Indians and Mexicans. In the 1830s many

By the 1830s and 1840s, the market revolution and westward expansion had profoundly affected all Americans’ lives, reinforcing older ideas of freedom and creating new ones. American freedom had long been linked with available land in the West. In this period was coined the phrase “manifest destiny,” referring to the divine mission of the United States to occupy all of North America and extend freedom, despite any costs to peoples and nations already there. But an old idea connecting freedom and a divine mission to move west and settle land had its origins in colonial times.

The American imperialism of the late 1800s and early 1900s showcased the same social and cultural advocation of the past expansionism. The original doctrine of Manifest Destiny was created in the 1840s to escort westward expansion and upheld a belief that America was predetermined by God to expand across the country to spread favors of freedom. As Senator Albert J. Beveridge explains in his 1900 discourse to 56th Congress, this conviction was just as influential to the later colonial America. He showcases Americans’ self acknowledgement as God’s chosen individuals, a race not only as blessed, but bound by a heavily obligation to illuminate whatever is left of the world through their own development. This was the point of view of “The White Man’s Burden,” which was

In this compelling book titled Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion, it focuses on social, cultural, and political content. Manifest destiny is an important principle in American history. Manifest destiny came about in the 1840s that sped up the western settlement and continued continental expansion. This book overviews manifest destiny and the expansion in the time before the Civil War. It explains how and why the manifest destiny formed and how territorial expansion was different. During the 1840s, manifest destiny was a positive movement, although it was aggressive.1 During this paper, it will cover how Manifest Destiny and American Expansion sought and promoted financial, territory, social acquirement in the United States.

In chapter 2 of the book, A Different Mirror, written by Ronald Takaki, the culture being represented are the Indians. While in chapter 3 of the book, Takkaki mainly discusses the cultures of the African American and English settlers of early America. Furthermore, in chapter 6 of the book, Takkaki explains the culture of the Irish and their migration to the United States. In a relevant lecture, which includes keywords such as: privilege, marginalization, and minoritization. In chapter 2, the material Takkaki discusses shows examples of how the Indians have shaped America into what it is today. In this chapter, Takkaki discusses how the English forced the Indians off their land and killing them in the process. While doing this, the English learned

Manifest Destiny in the 19th century was a belief that American settlers were destined to expand and move across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean which occurred out of a want and need to conquer and explore new lands and establish new borders to spread their culture, traditions, ideologies and institutions. It is the belief that the United States had a God given right to civilize and occupy the whole continent.

The idea of Manifest Destiny was prevalent in America’s colonial ideologies. The popularized idea of Manifest Destiny is the desire to spread West, and it was justified by the means of the conquest of being what “God” wanted. America could be the land that stretches from sea to sea and some already had ideas of taking over lands such as the Caribbean. The land was meant for the American people and anyone who dared to say otherwise was against expansion. This idea was not created by the American government but it was rather thought up by a creative journalist named John L. O’Sullivan. Not all people thought expansion was necessary for the country, but those thoughts no longer mattered after the goal of colonizing the entirety of the land was set.

Manifest Destiny can be described as a belief, in the 19th century, that North-America was destined to stretch from coast to coast and that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. It is responsible for changing the face of America and creating a new nation (Lubragge, 1809-1900). North-America’s westward expansion was due the American belief “that the strength of American values and institutions justified moral claims…”, land west of the Mississippi River “were destined for American-led political and agricultural improvement.”, and that “God and the Constitution ordained an irrepressible destiny to accomplish redemption and democratization throughout the world.” (Beatty et al.,

The United States was expanding with the vision of Manifest Destiny. People from the east where expanding towards uncharted territory in the west. From hunting pelts, mining for gold to making farms along the way.This vision was not an easy task, political structure over land and equal rights would ruin alliances and even caused wars. Families were broken or lost over a chance of making fortune out west. However, American’s journey to colonize the west was also a risk, not many survived the diseases, low food and the harsh weather that the frontier exposed. However Manifest Destiny was America’s divine right to expand towards the west by any means necessary, by purchasing, political or by force Americans are supposed to expand from sea to