Product Description

In an extraordinary blend of eloquent narrative history, vivid personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki relates the diverse 150-year history of Asian Americans. Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter, funny, and inspiring--he offers a stunning panorama of a neglected part of Americanhistory. 16 pages of photographs.

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Product Details

Publisher	Back Bay Books
ISBN	0316831301
Features	ISBN13: 9780316831307 Condition: New Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Format	Paperback
Author	Ronald Takaki
EAN	9780316831307
Label	Back Bay Books
Edition	Rev Upd
Dewey Decimal Number	973.0495
Studio	Back Bay Books
Number Of Pages	640
Title	Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans Au of...
Publication Date	1998-09-23
Manufacturer	Back Bay Books

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Customer Reviews

The First Step to World Peace is Understanding Another's Culture

Review by N. Yu, 2010-04-12

There is so much misunderstanding and miscommunication in this planet and home we call Earth.

Over the years, people of different ethnic groups started to drift apart and create their own unique and functional societies. As you've seen over the years, tensions from different ethnic groups have caused racism, suffering, death, and war.

I believe that, even though this was assigned to me in a class, everyone can still find something useful in this book. Many times, I would turn to another chapter that I was purely interested about, say for example the Koreans. I have no idea how they think or what happened in their history.

With that said, pick this book up because you might contribute to an eventual world peace and unity. Understanding another's culture and spreading that curiosity and knowledge is a small feat but makes a huge difference.

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Great catch

Review by Mary Jane, 2010-02-24

I am very pleased with the book. It's an essential item to have in a library and the hardback cover makes it that much better. The low price is amazing and the book is in great condition. I hate it when my used books I buy are all marked up. Took a little while to deliver though, but worth it for the most part. Thank you!

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a review from an asian

Review by Matt Lee, 2009-10-01

I purchased this book in order to save a couple dollars from buying the same book at my school's book store. Little did I know, I didn't need the book for class. But regardless, the book does have some interesting stories and information about Asian American history, and best of all, at least for my experience, it's a damn good paper weight. I'm satisfied with this book and I advise all people to purchase this book for its sheer paper weight qualities alone.

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Scenes of Asian American History

Review by BT River, 2009-04-18

"Strangers" is a comprehensive history of Asian American immigration into the US. This is history that one will not get from mainstream history classes. Dr. Takaki weaves his story with extensive research and eyewitness accounts.

For me, it brought home their struggles to come to America, to make a living and to be accepted as American. On a personal note, some of the types of incidents described in the book were experienced by my relatives and myself.

Dr. Takaki shows that the characteristics that established Americans reviled in these "strangers" were a by-product of exclusionary policies. For example, exclusionary immigration policies constrained the population of eligible immigrant females forcing immigrant males to find company with white females. This led to interracial dating/marriage and raised the ire of white Americans. Laws against miscegenation, interracial marriage, followed.

It's not an easy read, but definitely worthy of your consideration.

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Best Book I Have Ever Read

Review by Gale Saechao, 2008-03-09

its about how Asians are still not welcomed here after a few centuries. People of all races should read this book. America targets Asians and finding ways to extort money from them, which is still happening today.

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