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Ronald Takaki (1939–2009)

Autor/a de A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

27+ obres 2,648 Membres 20 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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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)

Inclou aquests noms: Ronald Takaki, Ronald T. Takaki

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Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology (1992) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions440 exemplars
The Great Fear: Race in the Mind of America (1970) — Col·laborador — 11 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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This is the revised addition, with extra chapters added in 2008 to more fully reflect the history of various groups in America including Afghan immigrants and the post-9/11 world. A solid introduction to American history and the parallels between various groups as they immigrated, were forcibly brought here, or were invaded. I'm a bit loathe to say this is the "hidden" part of American history, but if you think back to your schooling, how much space is given to immigration, and how often is it a paragraph about Ellis Island?

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?
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Daumari | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Dec 28, 2023 |
It was interesting to learn that although the major strikes of 1909 and 1920 were broken by the plantation owners, and the laborers forced to return to work like dogs with their tails between their legs, the workers were granted the exact things they were striking for just a few months after each of the strikes (although with no publicity to announce the gains). I was hoping that the laborers would trounce the management and show that they could not be disrespected, and was bummed to learn that it wasn't so. However, the fact that the workers did shortly get their concessions was somewhat mollifying.… (més)
 
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blueskygreentrees | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jul 30, 2023 |
Takaki's sweeping text is an excellent introduction to the history of people in the United States who have been oppressed and exploited by the dominant White culture. Really, what he writes in this book is a robust, and concentrated narrative of history that does not shy away from real hurt, violence and affords the reader many opportunities to reflect on how racist and fearful policies of the past are recapitulated in a modern context. While Takaki goes into the violent and painful legacy of violence in the United States he also offers his own story, and a tangible vision of hope for a pluralistic multi-cultural society where all people are treated with dignity and respect.… (més)
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b.masonjudy | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Apr 3, 2020 |
With the interest in black women who quietly helped America in the book and movie, Hidden Figures, this book published in 2013 deserves a place in a children's collection. I would have liked to have seen more photos, but I imagine they weren't available. These women had courage.
 
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