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Ronald Takaki is nation's foremost spokesperson for multicultural
education. A distinguished scholar and award-winning historian,
Takaki has inspired audiences throughout the world with an uplifting
new vision of the richness of social diversity and its singular
contributions.
Takaki's mission is to demonstrate that multiculturalism is not
only an unquestionably accurate assessment of social reality but
also an intellectually simulating approach to an array of academic
disciplines.
A Different Mirror, Takaki's acclaimed retelling
of country's various immigrant histories, was praised by Publishers
Weekly as "likely to become a classic of multicultural
studies." His book Strangers From A Different Shore
provides the first comprehensive and illumination history
of Asian Americans. His new book, Hiroshima: Why America
Dropped the Atomic Bomb, is a ground-breaking examination
of the one of the most influential events of the 20th Century.
The grandson of Japanese plantation laborers in Hawaii, Takaki is a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He was instrumental in establishing the American Cultures requirement for graduation at Berkeley and has received that campus' Distinguished Teaching Award. He has lectured throughout Russia, Europe, and Asia on ethnicity and racial conflicts.