One of the questions explored in A Different Mirror is: What does it mean to be an American citizen? Who is included (and excluded) from American identity and how does this relate to the American Dream? The book questions the idea that all ethnic groups in the nation dream of taking on American identity, and one of the ways it does this by being critical of the narrative of the American dream. Author’s Note: Epistemology and Epiphany.
Part 4, Chapter 17: “We Will All Be Minorities”. Part 4, Chapter 16: Again, the “Tempest-Tost”. Part 4, Introduction: The Problem of the Color Lines. Part 3, Chapter 13: To “the Land of Hope”. Part 3, Chapter 11: The Exodus from Russia. Part 3, Chapter 9: The “Indian Question”. Part 3, Introduction: The End of the Frontier. Part 2, Chapter 8: Searching for Gold Mountain. Part 2, Chapter 7: “Foreigners in Their Native Land”. Part 2, Chapter 6: Fleeing “the Tyrant’s Heel”. Part 2, Chapter 5: “No More Peck o’Corn”. Part 2, Chapter 4: Toward “the Stony Mountains”. Part 2, Introduction: The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. Part 1, Chapter 3: The Hidden Origins of Slavery. Part 1, Chapter 2: The “Tempest” in the Wilderness. Part 1, Introduction: Before Columbus: Vinland.
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