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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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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

Subject

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