After graduation from high school, I attended a college in a midwestern town where I found myself In Palolo Valley child, My teachers and textbooks did not explain the diversity of our community or the sources of our unity. "Hey, da kind tako ono, you know," we would say, combining English, Japanese, and Hawaiian: "This octopus is delicious." As I grew up, I did not know why families representing such an array of nationalities from different shores were living together and sharing their cultures and a common language. Together we went barefoot to school and played games Hke baseball and fan ken po. I heard voices with different accents, different languages, and saw children of different colors. Next door to us the Miuras flew billowing and colorful carp kites on Japanese boys' day. Alice Liu and her friends played mah-jongg late into the night, the clicking of the tiles lulling me to sleep. Nearby, across the stream where we caught crayfish and roasted them over an open fire, there were Filipino and Puerto Rican families. On the island of Oahu, Hawaii, where I lived as a Hamamoto, Kauhane, Wong, and Camara. Transition 406 The Second Wave: The Recent Asian Immigration 420 Pushed by "Necessity": The Refugees from SoutheastīREAKING SILENCES: Community of Memory The Myth of Roots The Myth of "Military Necessity" American Internment "THE TIDE OF TURBANS": America Dark Caucasians: The "Hindoo Question" A Community of "Uncles" 301ĭOLLAR A DAY, DIME A DANCE: The Forgotten Filipinos Mabuhay Manong: From Fields of Californiaĭemocracy and Race "OntoBataan" 358 "I am Korean" 363Ĭonfronting Contradictions: Nazi Nordic Superiority Searching for Bridges: Second-Generation Chinese Gilded Ghettos: Chinatowns in the Early Twentieth Hyphenated Americans: The Nisei GenerationĮTHNIC ISLANDS: The Emergence of Urban Chinese America Angel Island RAISING CANE: The World of Plantation Hawaii Hana-hana: Working 133 Politics: Published simultaneously in Canada Brown Company (Canada) LimitedįROM A DIFFERENT SHORE: Their History Bursts with Telling Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Takaki, Ronald T., 1939Strangers from a different shore: a history of Asian Americans/ Ronald Takaki. Hom, Copyright © 1987 by The Regents of the University of California, are reprinted by permission of The University of California Press. Excerpts from Songs of Gold Mountain by Marlon K. FIRST EDITIONĮxcerpt from America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan, Copyright 1943, 1946 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., reprinted by permission of the pubHsher. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM OR BY ANY ELECTRONIC OR MECHANICAL MEANS, INCLUDING INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS, WITHOUT PERMISSION IN WRITING FROM THE PUBLISHER, EXCEPT BY A REVIEWER WHO MAY QUOTE BRIEF PASSAGES IN A REVIEW. "Strangers" at the gates again : post-1965 -ġ2. The watershed of World War II : democracy and race -ġ1. Dollar a day, dime a dance : the forgotten Filipinos. "The tide of turbans" : Asian Indians in America -ĩ. Struggling against colonialism : Koreans in America -Ĩ. Ethnic islands : the emergence of urban Chinese America -ħ. Ethnic solidarity : the settling of Japanese America -Ħ. Raising cane : the world of plantation Hawaii. Gam saan haak : the Chinese in nineteenth-century America -Ĥ. Overblown with hope : the first wave of Asian immigration. From a different shore : their history bursts with telling.
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