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Strangers from a Different Shore
Author | : Ronald T. Takaki |
Publsiher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 1019 |
Release | : 2012-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781456611071 |
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, & oral testimony, the author 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 & culture, & Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the "model minority." This is a powerful & moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.
A Different Mirror
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publsiher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 787 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781456611064 |
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Takaki traces the economic and political history of Indians, African Americans, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Irish, and Jewish people in America, with considerable attention given to instances and consequences of racism. The narrative is laced with short quotations, cameos of personal experiences, and excerpts from folk music and literature. Well-known occurrences, such as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, the Trail of Tears, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Japanese internment are included. Students may be surprised by some of the revelations, but will recognize a constant thread of rampant racism. The author concludes with a summary of today's changing economic climate and offers Rodney King's challenge to all of us to try to get along. Readers will find this overview to be an accessible, cogent jumping-off place for American history and political science plus a guide to the myriad other sources identified in the notes.
A Different Mirror for Young People
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781609804176 |
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A longtime professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Ronald Takaki was recognized as one of the foremost scholars of American ethnic history and diversity. When the first edition of A Different Mirror was published in 1993, Publishers Weekly called it "a brilliant revisionist history of America that is likely to become a classic of multicultural studies" and named it one of the ten best books of the year. Now Rebecca Stefoff, who adapted Howard Zinn's best-selling A People's History of the United States for younger readers, turns the updated 2008 edition of Takaki's multicultural masterwork into A Different Mirror for Young People. Drawing on Takaki's vast array of primary sources, and staying true to his own words whenever possible, A Different Mirror for Young People brings ethnic history alive through the words of people, including teenagers, who recorded their experiences in letters, diaries, and poems. Like Zinn's A People's History, Takaki's A Different Mirror offers a rich and rewarding "people's view" perspective on the American story.
The Making of Asian America
Author | : Erika Lee |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2015-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476739403 |
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"In the past fifty years, Asian Americans have helped change the face of America and are now the fastest growing group in the United States. But as ... historian Erika Lee reminds us, Asian Americans also have deep roots in the country. The Making of Asian America tells the little-known history of Asian Americans and their role in American life, from the arrival of the first Asians in the Americas to the present-day. An epic history of global journeys and new beginnings, this book shows how generations of Asian immigrants and their American-born descendants have made and remade Asian American life in the United States: sailors who came on the first trans-Pacific ships in the 1500s to the Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II. Over the past fifty years, a new Asian America has emerged out of community activism and the arrival of new immigrants and refugees. No longer a "despised minority," Asian Americans are now held up as America's "model minorities" in ways that reveal the complicated role that race still plays in the United States. Published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the United States' Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 that has remade our "nation of immigrants," this is a new and definitive history of Asian Americans. But more than that, it is a new way of understanding America itself, its complicated histories of race and immigration, and its place in the world today"--Jacket.
Double Victory
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publsiher | : Back Bay Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2001-07-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316831565 |
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From a Navajo code talker to a Tuskegee pilot, Takaki examines the many contributions and sacrifices of America's minorities--blacks, Chinese, Native Americans and others--during World War II. Photos.
A Larger Memory
Author | : Ronald Takaki |
Publsiher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1998-09-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316831697 |
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A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.
Strangers from a Different Shore
Author | : Ronald T. Takaki |
Publsiher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316831093 |
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Including individuals from the first wave of immigrants in the 1840s, the author tells the story of some of the Asian-Americans who came to this country and the obstacles they faced here
Strangers at the Gates Again
Author | : Ronald T. Takaki |
Publsiher | : Chelsea House Pub |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0791021904 |
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Discusses recent immigrants from China, the Philippines, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia