Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans - Hardcover

Takaki, Ronald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316831093 ISBN 13: 9780316831093

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1989

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author:

Ronald Takaki has been a professor of Ethnic Studies for more than two decades at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Publishers Weekly:

Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the 19th century were transformed into outsiders by racism and economic exploitation. This pattern, Takaki shows, would be imposed on other Asian immigrant groups. 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.; Indians were feared and persecuted as labor competition; Japanese-Americans withdrew into self-contained communities. 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. 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. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0316831093
• ISBN 13: 9780316831093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512