- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA; 4 edition (27 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195147731
- ISBN-13: 978-0195147735
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,273,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now in its fourth edition, Natives and Strangers explores various aspects of minority group history, describing the impact America has had on minority peoples and cultures--and vice versa--and providing some understanding of the different conditions, conflicts, and contradictions that members of American minority groups experienced. Beginning with the American Indian migration throughout the United States, the book discusses the variety of Indian cultures that Europeans encountered, incorporating the most recent literature on the subject. As in earlier editions, the fourth edition integrates the experiences of racial, religious, and national minorities, explaining how their histories intertwined with the emergence of modern America. It also explores the far-reaching implications of recent immigration laws, presenting the controversy over multiculturalism in terms of understanding American history. The authors conclude with reflections on where the nation stands today as an ethnically and racially diverse society. For the fourth edition, Dinnerstein, Nichols, and Reimers have made extensive revisions. While the previous editions used economic development to organize and tell the history of America's multicultural society, this text focuses much more on ethnic groups themselves, the roles the groups played in American social developments, and the impact of economic changes on ethnicity. In addition, the authors include more information on the post-1960 period, particularly in regard to immigration and American Indians. They have expanded the discussion of the meaning of such terms as "white" and "people of color" and have updated all content--especially information on gender, Indian-white contact, and cultural history--by incorporating new findings from recent scholarship. This new edition contains extensive statistics culled from the recently available 2000 U.S. Census report; it features an explanation of what these latest figures indicate about America's ethnic makeup and revised tables and graphs that reflect this new data. Natives and Strangers, 4/e, is ideal for undergraduate courses covering immigration, American social history, and American ethnic groups.
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Don't waste your money., 29 May 2006
By K Dog - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Natives and Strangers: A Multicultural History of Americans (Paperback)
I teach a community college class on racism in the US and have been looking for a worthy replacement for Ronald Takaki's "A Diferent Mirror." I borrowed this book from the library with high hopes after looking at the table of contents.
While Takaki's book is an excellent "history from below," it hasn't been updated in about 12 years. Dinnerstein's book has been updated regularly (most recently in 2003) and covers some groups that have arrived more recently, such as Southeast Asians (you have to go to "Strangers From a Different Shore" to get info on this group if you stick with Takaki) and new African and Carribean immigrants. It also contains sections that analyze the multicultural development of the US economically and politically, which Takaki's book could use more of.
I was extremely disappointed in "Natives and Strangers" for one main reason -- the writing is too simplistic. While it covers a wide range of issues and ethnic/racialized groups, it does so in an extremely cursory way -- for example, the whole of Chinese immigration (over 100 years) is covered in less than 2 pages.
The development of slavery is discussed using more pages than that, but is done so in very dry language that oversimplifies a very complex (and not to mention horrific) process. Dinnerstein's discussion of slavery conveys neither the complexity nor the horror. By contrast, Takaki's portrayal of the development of slavery along with racialization of whites and blacks uses interesting language and direct quotes from primary source materials that really brings the history to life.
Making history interesting and accessible to community college students is a priority for me. For this purpose, Dinnerstein's book falls way short. Every semester, students remark how much they enjoy Takaki, saying that they are urging their friends and family to read it. So even though Takaki is over a decade old, I'm sticking with "A Different Mirror" -- I just hope it gets updated soon!
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