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Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans, and Revised Edition (Updated Edition) by Ronald Takaki Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-316-83130-1 / 0316831301 ISBN-13: 978-0-316-83130-7 / 9780316831307 In a blend of narrative history, personal recollection, and oral testimony, Ronald Takaki 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 stran |