Rediscovering America explores the lost history of America in an accessible timeline format. Its inclusive picture of the 20th Century highlights and reintergrates the complex contributions of women, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, immigrants, artists, renegades, rebels, rogues, and others normally cast to the margains of history books, but without whom there is no honest accounting of American history. Written with the imprimatur the Before Columbus Foundation, who contributed the introductions to each decade's chapter.
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Rediscovering America explores the lost history of America in an accessible timeline format. Its inclusive picture of the 20th Century highlights and reintergrates the complex contributions of women, African, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans, immigrants, artists, renegades, rebels, rogues, and others normally cast to the margains of history books, but without whom there is no honest accounting of American history. Written with the imprimatur the Before Columbus Foundation, who contributed the introductions to each decade's chapter.
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About Carla
Carla Blank is a writer, editor, and director whose cross disciplinary historical reference, Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America 1900-2000 (Three Rivers Press, 2003), highlights and reintegrates the complex contributions of women, African-and-...
Published Reviews
Mar.20.2008
"The Before Columbus Foundation, whose 50-plus members include Marie Anderson, Herbert Kohl, and Ishmael Reed, was founded 20 years ago to promote multicultural literature. Here it joins with the...
Mar.20.2008
Blank, who lectures on multiculturalism at the University of California, Berkeley, presents "an overview of twentieth-century America that is both interdisciplinary and multicultural, and therefore...









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