Ronald Takaki (1939–2009)
Autor/a de A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America
Sobre l'autor
Ronald Takaki is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians & a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include "Strangers from a Different Shore" & "A Different Mirror" &, most recently, "A Larger Memory". (Bowker Author Biography)
Obres de Ronald Takaki
From the Land of Morning Calm: The Koreans in America (Asian-American Experience) (1994) 13 exemplars
From Exiles to Immigrants: The Refugees from Southeast Asia (The Asian American Experience) (1995) 8 exemplars
In the Heart of Filipino America: Immigrants from the Pacific Isles (Asian American Experience) (1994) 8 exemplars
Ethnic Islands: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America (The Asian American Experience) (1994) 7 exemplars
Spacious Dreams: The First Wave of Asian Immigration (The Asian American Experience) (1994) 7 exemplars
Democracy and Race: Asian Americans and World War II (The Asian American Experience) (1994) 4 exemplars
Struggling Against Colonialism 1 exemplars
A Different Mirror Publisher: Back Bay Books 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Takaki, Ronald Toshiyuki
- Data de naixement
- 1939-04-12
- Data de defunció
- 2009-05-26
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Oahu, Hawaii, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Educació
- College of Wooster
University of California, Berkeley (PhD, American History) - Professions
- professor
historian
ethnographer
author - Organitzacions
- University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Berkeley - Biografia breu
- Ronald Takaki was a distinguished scholar of race and ethnicity. Born to a Japanese father and a Japanese American mother, Takaki studied at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. He taught UCLA's first Black History course before joining UC Berkeley's Department of Ethnic Studies in 1972, which had been recently created in response to student demand for course offerings that better reflected the diversity of the American experience. Takaki became one of its key members, developing the Ethnic Studies major and helping to make coursework in racial and ethnic diversity a requirement for graduation. He was a vocal proponent of multicultural education in the country at large, regularly appearing on programs such as NBC's Today and PBS's NewsHour to discuss issues of race and ethnicity in the United States. [adapted from A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America (2012)]
My grandfather emigrated from Japan to work on the cane fields of Hawaii in 1886, and my mother was born on the Hawi Plantation. As a teenager growing up on Oahu, I was not academically inclined but was actually a surfer. During my senior year, I took a religion course taught by Dr. Shunji Nishi, a Japanese American with a Ph.D. I remember going home and asking my mother, who only had an eighth-grade education: "Mom, what's a Ph.D.?" She answered: "I don't know but he must be very smart." Dr. Nishi became a role model for me, and he arranged for me to attend the College of Wooster. There my fellow white students asked me questions like: "How long have you been in this county? Where did you learn to speak English?" They did not see me as a fellow American. I did not look white or European in ancestry. As a scholar, I have been seeking to write a more inclusive and hence more accurate history of Americans, Chicanos, Native Americans as well as certain European immigrant groups like the Irish and Jews. My scholarship seeks not to separate our diverse groups but to show how our experiences were different but they were not disparate. Multicultural history, as I write and present it, leads not to what Schlesinger calls the "disuniting of America" but rather to the re-uniting of America. [retrieved from Amazon.com, 11/29/2012]
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- 27
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- 2
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- #9,699
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- 3.9
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- ISBN
- 56
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The most striking aspect to me was how much of American's immigration waves are due to labor, in a very cyclical way: "oh hey, we need cheap labor so let's import as many of these folks as we can; oh no there's too many of them we don't want to be taken over so let's ban them/send them home; oh wait we need cheap labor where's another place we can exploit", rinse and repeat. I'm a fourth generation Chinese American so it's a familiar story to me (familial, even), and I am quick to remind my social feeds of how the Chinese Exclusion Act set the blueprint for restrictive immigration police in the United States. The frustrating aspect to my more organized-labor minded friends is how often solidarity would've bonded the working class immigrants together, if not for the easy division tactic of xenophobia.
Strongly recommend this to supplement or educate yourself about the history of this country, and certainly for the reading lists y'all made in 2020 that you're definitely going to get around to reading in 2021, right?… (més)