Iron Cages de Ronald Takaki

"Iron Cages" provides a comparative analysis of white attitudes toward Asians, Blacks, Mexicans and Native Americans in the 19th century, offering a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America.

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Now in a new edition, Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white American attitudes toward Asians, blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the 19th century. This pathbreaking work offers a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In a new epilogue, Takaki argues that the social health of the United States rests largely on the ability of Americans of all races and cultures to build on an established and positive legacy of cross-cultural cooperation and understanding in the coming 21st century. Observing that by 2050 all Americans will be minorities, Takaki urges us to ask ourselves: Will America fulfill the promise of equality or will America retreat into its "iron cages" and resist diversity, allowing racial conflicts to divide and possibly even destroy America as a nation? Incisive and provocative, Iron Cages is an essential resource for students of ethnic history and important reading for anyone interested in the history of racerelations in America.

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One -- RepublicanismI. The "Iron Cage" in the New NationThe Birth of a Virtuous PeopleRace and Republican SocietyII. "Diseases" of the Mind and Sun"Republican Machines"The "Lovely White"III. Within the "Bowels" of the RepublicHead Over HeartBlack ColonizationRed LockeansTwo -- EnterpriseIV. Beyond Primitive AccumulationDemocracy in America: The Inner World of the Bourgeoisie The Market Revolution and RaceV. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Red Race on Our Borders"An Age of ConfidenceJibbenainosay: Indian-Hatin in FantasyJackson: Metaphysician of Indian-HatingVI. The Metaphysics of Civilization: "The Black Race Within Our Bosom"The Black Child/Savage: A Jacksonian Persuasion"Warranteeism": A Vision of a "Marx of the Master Class"Aesculapius Was a White Man: Race and the Cult of True WomanhoodThree -- TechnologyVII. An American Prospero in King Arthur's CourtThe New BodyWhite Technology: Anglo Over MexicanThe Triumph of Mind in AmeicaVIII. The Iron Horse in the West"Red Gifts" and "White Gifts": The World Custer LostThe Scientific Management of IndiansIX. Civilization in the "New South"Machines and Magnolias" Black Labor in an Industrial OrderThe "Negro Question": "Higher Life" in the SouthX. The "Heathen Chinee" and American TechnologyAh Sin in AmericaA Yellow Proletariat: Caste and Class in Industrial AmericaA Vision of Catastrophe: Henry George and the American Tower of BabelFour -- EmpireXI. The Masculine Thrust Toward AsiaThe "Iron Cage" in a Corporate CivilizationThe New Empire: American Asceticism and the "New Navy"XII. Down from the Gardens of AsiaEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex