Strangers from a Different Shore A History of Asian Americans Au of...
by Takaki, RonaldEdition: Revised
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Pub. Date: 1998-09-23
Publisher(s): HACHETT
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Ronald Takaki has been a professor of Ethnic Studies for more than two decades at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the New Edition: Confronting "Cultural Literacy": The Redefining of America | |
| From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling | p. 3 |
| Overblown with Hope: The First Wave of Asian Immigration | p. 21 |
| Gam Saan Haak: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America | p. 79 |
| Raising Cane: The World of Plantation Hawaii | p. 132 |
| Ethnic Solidarity: The Settling of Japanese America | p. 179 |
| Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America | p. 230 |
| Struggling Against Colonialism: Koreans in America | p. 270 |
| "The Tide of Turbans": Asian Indians in America | p. 294 |
| Dollar a Day, Dime a Dance: The Forgotten Filipinos | p. 315 |
| The Watershed of World War II: Democracy and Race | p. 357 |
| "Strangers" at the Gates Again: Post-1965 | p. 406 |
| Breaking Silences: Community of Memory | p. 472 |
| One-Tenth of the Nation: Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century | p. 492 |
| A Note of Appreciation | p. 511 |
| Notes | p. 513 |
| Index | p. 576 |
| About the Author | p. 592 |
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