Strangers from a Different Shore A History of Asian Americans Au of...

by Takaki, Ronald

• ISBN13: 9780316831307
• ISBN10: 0316831301
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-09-23
• Publisher: HACHETT

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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