(Name-mce) ListServ history textbooks

[Barbara Acosta]

I would highly recommend "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural
America" by Ronald Takaki.

Barbara D.Acosta, Ph.D

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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:29:34 -0600
From: "Mark Nelson" <Mark_Nelson at rdale.k12.mn.us>
To: <mayo at umn.edu>
Subject: textbooks

Hello, I hate to bother you but I would like to ask you a question about
resources. I have a student of yours working as my student teacher this
quarter (Chris Clark) and because of your position I thought you might
be able to shed some light on my query; I am concerned about the lack of
material out there representing different perspectives in America
History and was wondering if you have heard anything.   Is there an
American History textbook written with a multiple perspective approach? 
I mean multiple perspectives from an ethnicity standpoint; a text that
has contributions form authors representing different ethnic viewpoints
and their thoughts on various events in American History.  It is
important to note that I do not mean multi-cultural; which is often
written from the same perspective as the dominant culture and
trivializes cultural differences or simply focuses on the exotic
differences. I need to know if there is a textbook written form a multi
perspective approach - high school or even middle school. Thank you very
much.
Mark

Mark Nelson