Strangers from a different shore
a history of Asian Americans
by Ronald Takaki
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In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, of "picture brides" marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream.
He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate and culture, and Asian-American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This powerful and moving work, now updated with a new preface and new closing chapter, has resonance for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
October 1999, Bt Bound
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Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans
1998, Little, Brown
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- Updated and rev. ed., 1st Back Bay ed.
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Mō hitotsu no Amerikan dorīmu: Ajia-kei Amerikajin no chōsen
1996, Iwanami Shoten
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Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans
1990, Penguin Books
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Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans
1990, Penguin Books
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Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans
1989, Little, Brown
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-575) and index.
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Ronald Takaki, an expert in Asian American history and a former Ethnic Studies professor at Berkeley, tells the story of immigrants from Asia from the spike of immigration in the mid 1800s to the restrictions placed in the late 1800s to modern day immigration. An engaging and vital overview of the field.
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