Strangers From a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki
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(Paperback - Revised)
- Pub. Date: September 1998
- 640pp
- Sales Rank: 116,555
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 1998
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
- Format: Paperback, 640pp
- Sales Rank: 116,555
- ISBN-13: 9780316831307
- ISBN: 0316831301
- Edition Description: Revised
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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.
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Strangers From a Different Shore; A History of Asian Americansby Anonymous
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October 20, 2001: This book is one of the most compelling books ever written. It evokes sympathy while at the same time erases ignorance that pervades the Asian-American community. It incorporates Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Indians, Vietnamese, and other Asian races into one story of suffrage and survival.
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