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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au Of...
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In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
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This multicultural perspective on World War II tells how American soldiers and citizens played a significant role in the war effort but also how they were affected both by the fervor of ideology and by the reality of their everyday lives--and sometimes by the contrast between the two. Professor Takaki also examines decision-making at the top, in ...
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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
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In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.
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Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America
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Iron Cages provides a unique comparative analysis of white attitudes toward Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and Native Americans in the nineteenth century, offering a cohesive study of the foundations of race and culture in America. In his provocative new epilogue, 'The Fourth Iron Cage, ' Takaki focuses on race in contemporary society within the ...
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A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices
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A Larger Memory emerges from eighteenth-century archives and yesterday's headlines -- a sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries, and oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children, and others, their lives often separated ...
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Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
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The disputes over how to commemorate the U.S. use of the atomic bomb against Japan led to Congressional interference in the operations of the Smithsonian and the resignation of its curator who had become the focus of the controversy. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a much more trying issue for Americans 50 years after the fact than it ...
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Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb Tag: Author of a Different Mirror
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The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved. At the time, General Dwight Eisenhower, General Douglas MacArthur, and chief of staff Admiral William Leahy all agreed that an atomic attack on Japanese cities was unnecessary. All of them believed that Japan had ...
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Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920
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Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents
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1992 has been an explosive year for racial relations in the United States--from the reactions to the Rodney King verdict to debate about Malcolm X and the film portrayal of his role in American history. What relations do the recent events in Los Angeles have to the Watts Riots in 1965? Violence in the Black Imagination shows that these recent ...
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Iron Cages: Race and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
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Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America
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In the nineteenth century Herman Melville wrote, "America was settled by peoples of all nations....You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world. We are not a narrow tribe." At the beginning of the twenty-first century, America is more ethnically diverse than ever before. Will we fear this expanding ...
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Raising Cane: The World of Plantation Hawaii
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Strangers at the Gates Again: Asian American Immigration After 1965
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In the Heart of Filipino America: Immigrants from the Pacific Isles
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Professor Takai's narrative draws heavily upon personal recollections, allowing Asian Americans, the fastest growing ethnic group in North America, to tell of their hopes and dreams in their own words.
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Issei and Nisei: The Settling of Japanese America
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Spacious Dreams: The First Wave of Asian Immigration
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A history of the first wave of Asian immigration in America.
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From Exiles to Immigrants: The Refugees from Southeast Asia
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From the Land of Morning Calm: Koreans in America
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Journey to Gold Mountain: The Chinese in Nineteenth-Century America
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Arts, Entertainment & Sports(oop)
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Discusses the lives of some Asian Americans primarily known for their writing, including Amy Tan, David Henry Kwang, Dharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Laurence Yep.
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India in the West: South Asians in America
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Democracy and Race: Asian Americans and World War II
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Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese Aerica
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A pro-slavery crusade; the agitation to reopen the African slave trade
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Business, Politics & Science(oop)
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Ronald T Takaki, Angelo Ragaza
Discusses the lives of some Asian Americans primarily known for their writing, including Amy Tan, David Henry Kwang, Dharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, and Laurence Yep.
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