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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, by Ronald Takaki
€7.00
Quay Books
In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Takaki presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans.
He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation labourers in the canefields of Hawaii, of ‘picture brides’ marrying strangers in the hope of becoming part of the American dream.
He tells stories of Japanese Americans behind the barbed wire of U.S. 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.
“A touching paean to Asian-Americans who've overcome such obstacles as a Naturalization Law that kept nonwhites from citizenship as late as 1952. An ethnic success story, well told.” – Kirkus Reviews
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