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The collection contains general correspondence, mainly with colleagues and students. Correspondence relating to other Series are filed with those Series: Professional activities, Writings, Teaching, Research fiiles and Personal papers. The professional activities materials include Takaki's numerous lectures/presentations, special projects, consultations, media interviews/articles, and awards. They consist of correspondence, speeches, conference programs, proposals, drafts to review, evnet announcements, articles, newspaper clippings, background materials, certificates, posters, cassette tapes, compact disks, and photographs.

Describes the internment of Japanese Americans and the heroism of Japanese American soldiers

A history of the first wave of Asian immigration in America.

Discusses recent immigrants from China, the Philippines, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia

Professor Takai's narrative draws heavily upon personal recollections, allowing Asian Americans, the fastest growing ethnic group in North America, to tell of their hopes and dreams in their own words.

Describes the prejudices immigrants from China to the United States have faced in the past and continue to face today.

A dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounts the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture. Now, Ronald Takaki has revised his landmark work and made it even more relevant and important. Among the new additions to the book are: the role of black soldiers in preserving the Union; the history of Chinese Americans from 1900-1941; an investigation into the hot-button issue of "illegal" immigrants from Mexico; and a look at the sudden visibility of Muslim refugees from Afghanistan. This new edition grapples with the raw truth of American history and examines the ultimate question of what it means to be an American.--From publisher description.

Looks at early Asian plantation workers in Hawaii, and discusses Hawaii's multicultural heritage

1992 has been an explosive year for racial relations in the United States--from the reactions to the Rodney King verdict to debate about Malcolm X and the film portrayal of his role in American history. What relations do the recent events in Los Angeles have to the Watts Riots in 1965? Violence in the Black Imagination shows that these recent events force us to understand the history of racism in America and its legacy of antagonism and violence. Ronald T. Takaki presents three short novels of major African-American leaders in the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the leading black abolitionist; Martin Delany, the father of black nationalism; and William Wells Brown, a pioneer of the black novel. The novels are accompanied by substantive essays which provide both biographical information on the author and explore the common theme of their work--the issue of black revolutionary violence in antebellum America. The work includes a new preface which examines the 1992 South Central Los Angeles racial explosion in relationship to Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the 1965 Watts Riot.