Common Ground: Reimagining American History

by Gary Y. Okihiro

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070075
• ISBN13: 9780691070070
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"