Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. Hardcover. Second printing. Inscribed by Ronald Takaki on the half-title. In an extraordinary blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, the author presents a sweeping history of Asian Americans. Takaki (1939-2009) writes of the Chinese who laid tracks for the transcontinental railroad, of plantation laborers in the canefields of Hawaii, and 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". Octavo: 570 p. with textual photographs and endpaper maps. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #74976
ISBN: 0316831093

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