Strangers from a different shore

Description:

Ronald Takaki, an expert in Asian American history and a former Ethnic Studies professor at Berkeley, tells the story of immigrants from Asia from the spike of immigration in the mid 1800s to the restrictions placed in the late 1800s to modern day immigration. An engaging and vital overview of the field.

subjects: Asian Americans,  Immigration,  Asian Immigration,  History,  Social conditions,  Gold Rush,  Chinese exclusion,  15.85 history of America,  Immigranten,  Aziaten

Places: San Francisco,  Angel Island,  Los Angeles