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Title: Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America by Ronald T. Takaki ISBN: 0-19-513737-X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How America Grew
Comment: Iron Cages American History from the days after the revolutionary war to the Spanish American War during a time when the country grew in size, population, and importance. Takaki looks at these issues showing American philosophy of moving westard and expanding trade. He focuses on the race relatted issues of the period such as the roles of Native Ameiricans, Blacks and Chinese in this country.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant study
Comment: Professor Takaki picks up where Max Weber left off, in that he illustrates how white men of means - those "culture makers" of early American society, effectively raised the American level of technical rationalization to not only oppress Africans, Asians, Mexicans, and Native Americas, but how that heightened level of rationalization ultimately subsumed those "culture makers" themselves. (He briefly illustrates how this animus was turned toward women in helping to define what white men were not.) He connects the ascendency of technical rationalization to the rationalization employed by a religious ethic that stresses religious salvation through work and the suppression of natural instincts. His study is not accusatory; it is illustrative.
By use of diaries and works culled from the deepest annals of history, Professor Takaki points out and points to the vulnerability, ambivalence, befuddlement and powerlessness felt and experienced by the founding fathers, who looked to build a moral nation - one not mirroring the licentiousness and dissipation of Great Britain. The very mores, however, advanced by the founding fathers, in twisted and convoluted turns, gave rise to the very "profligacy" and "luxury" that threatened the infant nation. It is from this point forward where the Professor effectively links the oppression of black slavery to other forms of white racial animus experienced by those groups not labeled, or hesitantly so, as white and particularly male.
Joel Kovel's White Racism: A Psychohistory is both a good and interesting follow-up read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant book by a brilliant author.
Comment: I was privileged to be Ronald Takaki's student at the University of California, Berkeley when he was completing his research on this insightful, wonderfully enlightening work. The course he taught from his research was the most meaningful, stimulating, truly inspirational I have taken in my many years as a student. Dr. Takaki is not only intellectually incandescent, but is a profoundly humane and compassionate man. As a high school social studies teacher, I have included Dr. Takaki's premises and conclusions in every class I teach and never fail to see the same sort of epiphanies in my students that I, myself, experienced. Dr. Takaki makes entirely comprehensible the paradigm of racism, sexism and elitism which has so long prevailed in our society; and his observations are as pertinent and contemporary today as they were a quarter of a century ago. A marvelous book!
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Title: The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin ISBN: 0385334605 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power : Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality by Toni Morrison ISBN: 0679741453 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 06 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger ISBN: 1859842402 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki ISBN: 0316831115 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s by Michael Omi, Howard Winant ISBN: 0415908647 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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