About this title: A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often separated by ethnic borders, speak side by side as Takaki frames their voices with his own text.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998-09-23
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998-09-23
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316831697ISBN:0316831697
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 1998-09-23
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hachette Book Group Usa
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780316311625ISBN:0316311626
Description: New. A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often sepa... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 1998-09-23
ISBN-13:9780316831697ISBN:0316831697
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""Until lions have their historians, histories of the hunt will glorify the hunter" --African proverb
In the mid 80's, Asian American historian Gary Okihiro wrote an essay on the importance of oral histories, memoirs, autobiographies etc. in the construction of the Ethnic Studies as an academic discipline. He noted that using "non-traditional" sources like oral histories are not only a tool or a method for recovering history, but in fact, they are a theory of history which maintains that common folk have a history that must be told, that must be written.
I was lucky enough to take this in and do an oral history with my mother.
My mom's story is included in this book and begins on page 248."
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