![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Photos.Ĭopyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Later chapters cover the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II and the post-1965 "second wave" of Asian immigrants that included Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians. Ronald Takaki is the author of A Different Mirror (4.17 avg rating, 4927 ratings, 324 reviews, published 1993), Strangers from a Different Shore (4.16 av. ![]() Takaki, descended from a Japanese-American family who labored on Hawaiian plantations, and now an ethnic studies professor at UC Berkeley, has written a vibrant, rich history that gives back a voice to countless "invisible Americans." His broad, multi-ethnic survey is peopled with real individuals, allowing us to experience their loneliness, separation from families, struggles for survival. Indians were feared and persecuted as labor competition Japanese-Americans withdrew into self-contained communities. Filipinos, condescended to as "little brown brothers" by whites in the Philippines, became targets of violent white backlash once they emigrated to the U.S. This pattern, Takaki shows, would be imposed on other Asian immigrant groups. Professor Ronald Takaki has passed away at the age of 70: Ronald Takaki, a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and prolific scholar of U.S. in the 19th century were transformed into outsiders by racism and economic exploitation. Strangers From a Different Shore, by Ronald Takaki, is a study of Asian Americans. ![]()
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