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Common ground : reimagining American history
- Title
- Common ground : reimagining American history / Gary Y. Okihiro.
- Author
- Okihiro, Gary Y., 1945-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 158 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In Common ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences.
- Series Statement
- Princeton paperbacks
- Uniform Title
- Princeton paperbacks
- Subjects
- Cultural pluralism
- 1980-2020
- History
- USA
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-
- United States > Ethnic relations
- United States > History > Philosophy
- Cultural pluralism > United States
- National characteristics, American
- Subjectivity > Social aspects > United States
- Binary principle (Linguistics)
- United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020
- Minorities > United States > Social conditions
- Asian Americans > Social conditions
- Group identity > United States
- Ethnic relations
- Minorities > Social conditions
- Philosophy
- Social conditions
- Ethnische Beziehungen
- Geschichte
- Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
- Nationale Minderheit
- Gruppenidentität
- Nationalcharakter
- Aziaten
- Representatie (algemeen)
- Nationale identiteit
- Etnisch bewustzijn
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-152) and index.
- Contents
- ch. 1. West and East -- ch. 2. White and black -- ch. 3. Man and woman -- ch. 4. Heterosexual and homosexual -- ch. 5. American history.
- ISBN
- 0691070067
- 9780691070063
- 0691070075
- 9780691070070
- LCCN
- 00049112
- OCLC
- ocm45102981
- 45102981
- SCSB-1211383
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library