strangers from a different shore by ronald takaki

Ethnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese America - Ethnic enterprise - The exclusionist basis of ethnicity - Hyphenated Americans: the Nisei generation - 6. Raising cane: the world of plantation Hawaii - Hana-hana: working - Politics: seasons of rebellion - Plantation camps: culture and community - 5. Gam saan haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America - Searching for Gold Mountain - The heathen Chinee - Letters from the 'colony' - 4. Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration - 'Get labor first' : the American errand into the wildnerness - Tan Heung Shan and Gam Saan - A Meiji voice crossing the Pacific - Leaving the land of 'morning calm' - Manongs in movement - From the plains of the Punjab - Pacific passages - 3. From a different shore: their history bursts with telling - 2. Preface to the new edition: Confronting 'cultural literacy': the redefining of America - 1.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-575) and index internment camps during World War II, Hmong refugees tragically unable to adjust to Wisconsin's alien climate and culture, and Asian American students stigmatized by the stereotype of the 'model minority.' This is a powerful and moving work that will resonate for all Americans, who together make up a nation of immigrants from other shores.-Publisher description 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. Xv, 591 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cmĪ history of Asian Americans, introducing the people, the cultures, and their hope, fears, contribution, and dreams

Strangers from a different shore by ronald takaki