![]() He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. 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. In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. One-tenth of the nation: Asian Americans in the twenty-first century.Ī history of Asian Americans, introducing the people, the cultures, and their hope, fears, contribution, and dreams. "Strangers" at the gates again: post-1965 ![]() The watershed of World War II: democracy and race "The tide of turbans": Asian Indians in Americaĭollar a day, dime a dance: the forgotten Filipinos Struggling against colonialism: Koreans in America Raising cane: the world of plantation HawaiiĮthnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese AmericaĮthnic islands: the emergence of urban Chinese America ![]() Gam saan haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration Preface to the new edition: Confronting "cultural literacy": the redefining of Americaįrom a different shore: their history bursts with telling Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans / Ronald Takaki. ![]() Request This Author Takaki, Ronald T., 1939-2009. ![]()
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