Later chapters cover the internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II and the post-1965 ``second wave'' of Asian immigrants that included Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians. Takaki, descended from a Japanese-American family who labored on Hawaiian plantations, and now an ethnic studies professor at UC Berkeley, has written a vibrant, rich history that gives back a voice to countless ``invisible Americans.'' His broad, multi-ethnic survey is peopled with real individuals, allowing us to experience their loneliness, separation from families, struggles for survival. 1989, Strangers from a different shore : a history of Asian Americans / Ronald Takaki Little, Brown Boston Wikipedia Citation Please see Wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. Through sheer definition there is a physical difference between the two but as time has passed there has been an indisputable recognition of the differences in personality and cognition. Since the beginning of time there has been a distinct division between the sexes. Indians were feared and persecuted as labor competition Japanese-Americans withdrew into self-contained communities. Strangers from a Different Shore by Ronald Takaki.
Filipinos, condescended to as ``little brown brothers'' by whites in the Philippines, became targets of violent white backlash once they emigrated to the U.S. This pattern, Takaki shows, would be imposed on other Asian immigrant groups.
in the 19th century were transformed into outsiders by racism and economic exploitation.
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