Comments on: RIP Ronald Takaki (1939-2009) http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/ A blog for Asian Americans Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:31:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jen http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-124161 jen Sun, 31 May 2009 17:29:06 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-124161 sadness. i'll never forget his high energy, enthusiasm for discovering history from a different lens, and his pure joy for teaching. i kept crashing to get into (and eventually enrolled) his ethnic studies upper division course as a sophomore @ berkeley. thank you for writing the homage. i'm so thankful i was persistent and had the chance to take his course--it really changed my life. sadness.
i’ll never forget his high energy, enthusiasm for discovering history from a different lens, and his pure joy for teaching.

i kept crashing to get into (and eventually enrolled) his ethnic studies upper division course as a sophomore @ berkeley. thank you for writing the homage. i’m so thankful i was persistent and had the chance to take his course–it really changed my life.

]]> By: jen http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-141296 jen Sun, 31 May 2009 17:29:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-141296 sadness. i'll never forget his high energy, enthusiasm for discovering history from a different lens, and his pure joy for teaching. i kept crashing to get into (and eventually enrolled) his ethnic studies upper division course as a sophomore @ berkeley. thank you for writing the homage. i'm so thankful i was persistent and had the chance to take his course--it really changed my life. sadness.
i’ll never forget his high energy, enthusiasm for discovering history from a different lens, and his pure joy for teaching.

i kept crashing to get into (and eventually enrolled) his ethnic studies upper division course as a sophomore @ berkeley. thank you for writing the homage. i’m so thankful i was persistent and had the chance to take his course–it really changed my life.

]]> By: Efren http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-124104 Efren Sun, 31 May 2009 01:42:27 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-124104 Yeah, Takaki was one of the first to write a comprehensive history of Asian Americans and inspired many of my friends who are now academics to go into Asian American studies because of his scholarship. It was the first time that I had seen someone take all these different threads of different Asian American groups and tied them into a comprehensive story of how we've all gained a foothold in the United States even when the laws and the odds were clearly stacked against us, and the mainstream were hell bent on wiping us from the United States by preventing our ancestors from creating families, preventing the straight men in bachelor societies from marrying the non-Asian women that they loved, preventing migration of Asian women because they were believed to be prostitutes, etc. The other folks were instrumental in legitimizing the historical experience of Asian Americans pre-1965, some directly involved in creating Asian American studies programs in the Bay Area, and some documenting the stories and histories of the Chinese and Filipino Americans in a scholarly way, through poetry and through academic quality papers. We really owe them a debt of gratitude for what they've done for us, and ensuring that the stories of those who came before us, especially before 1965, aren't forgotten. Yeah, Takaki was one of the first to write a comprehensive history of Asian Americans and inspired many of my friends who are now academics to go into Asian American studies because of his scholarship. It was the first time that I had seen someone take all these different threads of different Asian American groups and tied them into a comprehensive story of how we’ve all gained a foothold in the United States even when the laws and the odds were clearly stacked against us, and the mainstream were hell bent on wiping us from the United States by preventing our ancestors from creating families, preventing the straight men in bachelor societies from marrying the non-Asian women that they loved, preventing migration of Asian women because they were believed to be prostitutes, etc.

The other folks were instrumental in legitimizing the historical experience of Asian Americans pre-1965, some directly involved in creating Asian American studies programs in the Bay Area, and some documenting the stories and histories of the Chinese and Filipino Americans in a scholarly way, through poetry and through academic quality papers. We really owe them a debt of gratitude for what they’ve done for us, and ensuring that the stories of those who came before us, especially before 1965, aren’t forgotten.

]]> By: Efren http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-141295 Efren Sun, 31 May 2009 01:42:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-141295 Yeah, Takaki was one of the first to write a comprehensive history of Asian Americans and inspired many of my friends who are now academics to go into Asian American studies because of his scholarship. It was the first time that I had seen someone take all these different threads of different Asian American groups and tied them into a comprehensive story of how we've all gained a foothold in the United States even when the laws and the odds were clearly stacked against us, and the mainstream were hell bent on wiping us from the United States by preventing our ancestors from creating families, preventing the straight men in bachelor societies from marrying the non-Asian women that they loved, preventing migration of Asian women because they were believed to be prostitutes, etc. The other folks were instrumental in legitimizing the historical experience of Asian Americans pre-1965, some directly involved in creating Asian American studies programs in the Bay Area, and some documenting the stories and histories of the Chinese and Filipino Americans in a scholarly way, through poetry and through academic quality papers. We really owe them a debt of gratitude for what they've done for us, and ensuring that the stories of those who came before us, especially before 1965, aren't forgotten. Yeah, Takaki was one of the first to write a comprehensive history of Asian Americans and inspired many of my friends who are now academics to go into Asian American studies because of his scholarship. It was the first time that I had seen someone take all these different threads of different Asian American groups and tied them into a comprehensive story of how we’ve all gained a foothold in the United States even when the laws and the odds were clearly stacked against us, and the mainstream were hell bent on wiping us from the United States by preventing our ancestors from creating families, preventing the straight men in bachelor societies from marrying the non-Asian women that they loved, preventing migration of Asian women because they were believed to be prostitutes, etc.

The other folks were instrumental in legitimizing the historical experience of Asian Americans pre-1965, some directly involved in creating Asian American studies programs in the Bay Area, and some documenting the stories and histories of the Chinese and Filipino Americans in a scholarly way, through poetry and through academic quality papers. We really owe them a debt of gratitude for what they’ve done for us, and ensuring that the stories of those who came before us, especially before 1965, aren’t forgotten.

]]> By: Teresa http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-124092 Teresa Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-124092 I didn't know about any of these Asian Americans. This is great. Going to do some research on each one of them myself now. I didn’t know about any of these Asian Americans. This is great. Going to do some research on each one of them myself now.

]]> By: Teresa http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-141294 Teresa Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-141294 I didn't know about any of these Asian Americans. This is great. Going to do some research on each one of them myself now. I didn’t know about any of these Asian Americans. This is great. Going to do some research on each one of them myself now.

]]> By: jozjozjoz http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-124024 jozjozjoz Fri, 29 May 2009 19:51:07 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-124024 "Strangers From a Different Shore" was one of the books I was assigned to read in my first Asian American Studies class at UCLA. It was so influential that I decided to add Asian American Studies as one of my undergrad majors. Every so often, I fancy thoughts of going back to school to do graduate work in AAS. Takaki has influenced so many people, and I'm proud to count myself as one of them. Efi, thanks for the coverage on Al Robles, Richard Aoki, and Him Mark Lai. They've each contributed so much to the fields of ethnic studies and their impact will not be forgotten. “Strangers From a Different Shore” was one of the books I was assigned to read in my first Asian American Studies class at UCLA. It was so influential that I decided to add Asian American Studies as one of my undergrad majors. Every so often, I fancy thoughts of going back to school to do graduate work in AAS. Takaki has influenced so many people, and I’m proud to count myself as one of them.

Efi, thanks for the coverage on Al Robles, Richard Aoki, and Him Mark Lai. They’ve each contributed so much to the fields of ethnic studies and their impact will not be forgotten.

]]> By: jozjozjoz http://www.8asians.com/2009/05/29/ronald-takaki/comment-page-1/#comment-141293 jozjozjoz Fri, 29 May 2009 19:51:00 +0000 http://www.8asians.com/?p=3176#comment-141293 "Strangers From a Different Shore" was one of the books I was assigned to read in my first Asian American Studies class at UCLA. It was so influential that I decided to add Asian American Studies as one of my undergrad majors. Every so often, I fancy thoughts of going back to school to do graduate work in AAS. Takaki has influenced so many people, and I'm proud to count myself as one of them. Efi, thanks for the coverage on Al Robles, Richard Aoki, and Him Mark Lai. They've each contributed so much to the fields of ethnic studies and their impact will not be forgotten. “Strangers From a Different Shore” was one of the books I was assigned to read in my first Asian American Studies class at UCLA. It was so influential that I decided to add Asian American Studies as one of my undergrad majors. Every so often, I fancy thoughts of going back to school to do graduate work in AAS. Takaki has influenced so many people, and I’m proud to count myself as one of them.

Efi, thanks for the coverage on Al Robles, Richard Aoki, and Him Mark Lai. They’ve each contributed so much to the fields of ethnic studies and their impact will not be forgotten.

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