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Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans /

by Takaki, Ronald T.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1998Edition: Updated and rev. ed., 1st Back Bay ed.Description: xv, 591 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm.ISBN: 0316831301; 9780316831307.Subject(s): Asian Americans -- History | Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Contents:
Preface to the new edition: Confronting "cultural literacy": the redefining of America -- From a different shore: their history bursts with telling -- Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration -- Gam saan haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America -- Raising cane: the world of plantation Hawaii -- Ethnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese America -- Ethnic islands: the emergence of urban Chinese America -- Struggling against colonialism: Koreans in America -- "The tide of turbans": Asian Indians in America -- Dollar a day, dime a dance: the forgotten Filipinos -- The watershed of World War II: democracy and race -- "Strangers" at the gates again: post-1965 -- Breaking silences: community of memory -- One-tenth of the nation: Asian Americans in the twenty-first century.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [513]-575) and index.

Preface to the new edition: Confronting "cultural literacy": the redefining of America -- From a different shore: their history bursts with telling -- Overblown with hope: the first wave of Asian immigration -- Gam saan haak: the Chinese in nineteenth-century America -- Raising cane: the world of plantation Hawaii -- Ethnic solidarity: the settling of Japanese America -- Ethnic islands: the emergence of urban Chinese America -- Struggling against colonialism: Koreans in America -- "The tide of turbans": Asian Indians in America -- Dollar a day, dime a dance: the forgotten Filipinos -- The watershed of World War II: democracy and race -- "Strangers" at the gates again: post-1965 -- Breaking silences: community of memory -- One-tenth of the nation: Asian Americans in the twenty-first century.

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