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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, Updated and Revised Edition Paperback – September 23, 1998
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In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. He writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers 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.
- Print length640 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
- Publication dateSeptember 23, 1998
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.13 x 8.38 inches
- ISBN-100316831301
- ISBN-13978-0316831307
- Lexile measure1150L
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- Publisher : Little, Brown and Company; Revised and Updated edition (September 23, 1998)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 640 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0316831301
- ISBN-13 : 978-0316831307
- Lexile measure : 1150L
- Item Weight : 1.17 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.13 x 8.38 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #428,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #185 in U.S. Immigrant History
- #384 in Emigration & Immigration Studies (Books)
- #619 in Chinese History (Books)
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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.
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The book itself is a classic, especially impressive because the author was a pioneer at the time in recounting Asian American experience. He has continued to work in this historical area, and by now he is recognized as a distinguished scholar and authority in the field There is a newer edition of this foundational work, but I wanted the original.
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.








