A Book Every American Should Read | Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of......

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	• Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of... Ronald Takaki Back Bay Books, 1998 - 640 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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Best Book I Have Ever Read

its about how Asians are still not welcomed here after a few centuries. People of all races should read this book. America targets Asians and finding ways to extort money from them, which is still happening today.

A Book Every American Should Read

This was my textbook for my Asian-American History class in college and this was one I did not sell back. This is a very interesting read about the various groups of Asian immigrants to America and their struggles. This is history you never hear about and thus makes it even more captivating. Takaki's style of writing is easy to follow and never dull. I recommend this for anyone who is seriously interested in race studies or American history.

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Asian American History Up Close

Ronald Takaki opens the gate to Asian American history. When one reads STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: A HISTORY OF ASIAN AMERICANS, there is no doubt that this area of study still needs further examination beyond what has already been written. While reading this book, two critical areas come to mind when studying the intricacies and complexities of American history and all its participants -- Asian American history about social intolerance and injustice that was imposed on many Asian immigrants during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? This as well as other interpretations of the presence of Asians within American history is the main premise of Takaki's study, which centers on the "stranger" or the "other," and how their story was no different from their European counterparts - seeking the romanticized and majestic "American dream," but happened to encounter social indifferences along the way.

Takaki roughly covers the broad spectrum of Asian immigration from the 1830s to the late 1980s. He specifically examines the Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, and briefly the latter, Korean, Asian-Indians, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian immigrants. The book contains immense information pertaining to Chinese and Japanese immigration, and Takaki concentrates on the Pacific Rim -- Hawaii, California, and the Pacific Northwest where Asian presence has had a significant social, political, and economical effect on the particular region. Although Takaki provides a vast amount of detail, one thing lacking in his study is the mention of the arrival of Filipinos in New Orleans during the late eighteenth century. It may have been helpful if he also spoke a little bit more about the East coast of the United States.

Nonetheless, STRANGERS FROM A DIFFERENT SHORE magnifies Asian American history and shows the misconceptions, stereotypes, myths, and the never-ending reference to "other". Indeed, Asian American history shows the undesirable side to history, and hopefully, more scholarship will be written where Takaki has left off in order to provide a balanced representation that shows the good and bad in a way that other events in American history have already done. This is a great introduction for anyone who wants to have a better understanding of Asian American history as well as Asian American culture.

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Great book

This book, Strangers From a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki, is a great book to read. Ron Takaki tells stories about how Asian Americans travel to America, to find a better job. They leave behind their families not knowing if they are going to come back. This book covers many Asian races like the Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Indians, Vietnamese and other Asian races that journeyed to America in search of prosperity. As an Asian American myself, this book has taught me more about my ancestors than our history books. If you are interested in Asian Americans, I suggest reading this book because it will make things more clear about Asian American history as well as their hardships of landing into a unknown world where Caucasians are jealous, angry and ready to kill because of so many people taking their jobs. Ronald Takaki describes in detail how Asian Americans had to overcome all their hardships. Like getting false papers, traveling by boat to America, imprisonment on Angel Island, how they searched for gold, etc. Ronald Takaki writes an ideal "textbook" about Asian Americans, but this "textbook" does not seem to feel like one. It is fun to read, enjoyable, and informative. This is one of the best books that I have read in a long time.

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From a Different Shore

We're all pretty familiar with the immigration patterns that came to our east cost through time in such places as Ellis Island. However, pacific immigration and immigration to Hawaii have received less attention. He deals with Angel Island, the Ellis Island of the west coast and the life off immigrant emplyed in Hawaii agriculture. Takaki looks at this pattern of immigration from the arrival of the first Chinese in California in the 1840s. He covers a lot of asain ethnic groups like the Chinese, Japanese, Asian Indians, and Korean. He looks at immigration through the present and different legislation like the Chinese Exclusion Act, immigration act of 1924 that basically cut of Asian immmigration and the immigration act of 1965 that reopened Asian immigration. Takaki looks at the hearships and racism that affected these immigrant. In addition, Takaki focuses on the adjustments, how they lived and how their children born in this country were treated. Present Asian-Americans concerns are presented like anti-Asian violence like the murder of Vincent Chin and the Dotbusters.

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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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