Every American should know, and understand, the inequities suffered by minorities, but this should be understood within a broad context. I thus felt this was less compelling than the best of histories. In this book, the history is not integrated, it focuses largely on the inequities suffered by minorities, instead of a broad swath including the inequities along with the many scientific, technical, cultural, artistic, and political contributions of minorities. Most of this material was covered back then, and covered in a more integrated way. Perhaps, once upon a time, the history of minorities in the US was not covered in K-12 histories, but for decades (at least in California where I graduated high school in 1976) this has no longer been the case. This (like all histories) distorts in its own way. This is book attempts to look at US history through a different mirror by focusing upon the history of various minorities.
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