In both short and long essays please respond to arguments that Ronald Takaki makes in “A Different Mirror” book while also integrating material from primary source documents. The documents, and your textbook “A different mirror”by Ronald Takaki. Do NOT use wikipedia or any other internet sources.
Please numbers your essays and please upload your exam as a SINGLE word or pdf file. Please do NOT submit from your google docs, do NOT copy/paste, and do not use a remote drive. Upload an actual file.
Short Answers
Answer FIVE of the following in 1-2 paragraphs. You should use Ronald Takaki “A different Mirror”book and/or the documents we’ve read to answer these questions but you are not required to quote them like you are on papers. Do NOT use outside sources. (20 points each)
1. What does Takaki mean by the phrase “giddy multitude,” and how does it relate to his larger argument that I (Tania Maync) calls the wedge thesis? The_Burning_of_Jamestown.jpg sugarcane-workers-USC-libraries-Cal-historical-society.webp Image: The burning of Jamestown, 1676. Workers in the canefields (sugar) in Hawaii.
2. Becoming American: According to Takaki, Eastern European Jews went through a process of “purification” and to become American meant to acquire “civility.” What is civility in this context and how is this similar to the experience of other immigrant groups such as the Irish and the “ethnic strategy” he argued they used to assimilate?
3. What were the ramifications of the Mexican War for the “foreigners in their native land” as Takaki called it and how did it influence the issue of the expansion of slavery in the United States?
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3. What were the ramifications of the Mexican War for the “foreigners in their native land” as Takaki called it and how did it influence the issue of the
expansion of slavery in the United States?
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4. How does Chinese immigration to the United States serve to support Takaki’s larger argument about racial caste? (chapter 8) Note that CASTE denotes a LEGAL category.
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Image 1: Cartoon, The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things. Image 2: Cartoon, Pacific Chivalry
5. What was the relationship between the Black Codes and the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution that were passed during Reconstruction? Please include a discussion on the issue of the role of the federal vs. state/local government.
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6. What was the difference between the goals and the results of the Dawes Act of 1887 according to Ronald Takaki in “A Different Mirror” book (chapter 9)
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Essay Question
Answer ONE of the following in 4-5 paragraphs. You must use Ronald Takaki in “a different mirror” to answer this question but you are welcome to refer to
documents we’ve read if it makes sense. Do not use outside sources. (50 points)
It has been suggested in this class, by me as well as by your textbook, that the category of “race” is not an immutable physical construct but rather a
relatively modern social contract that has evolved over the course of the last half-millennium according to historical developments. What historical factors
led to the emergence of the “racial hierarchy” and a “caste labor system” in the British colonies and later United States?
Please make sure you use examples from Ronald Takaki or by referring to documents we’ve read. (Note that Takaki does not use to term “caste labor
system” to refer solely to slavery but also when discussing “vaqueros,” Chinese and all “Calibans of color.”)
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Image: Johann Heinrich Ramberg, Stephano, Trinculo, and Caliban (left) Dancing from the Tempest (ca. 1810)
How does Ronald Takaki utilize the terms “civilization” and “savagery” to tell the story of American history from “a different mirror?” Note that he presents
these terms as “mirror images” of each other and the definition of one says a lot about the fear and self-identification of the other. Please make sure you
present Takaki’s definition of these two terms in your response (that is what are the characteristics of civilization and what are the characteristics of
savagery) and give at least TWO examples of ethnic or immigrant groups branded as “savage” or at least “less civilized” and how this was used to justify
unequal treatment