Who is Ronald Takaki from Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans and what is their importance?

Ronald Takaki is the author of the book, Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans. In the book, Takaki observes the way in which Asian immigration to Hawaii and the United States began. Asians provided a cheap and reliable labor source during the period of industrialization and labor shortages. His own grandparents had been immigrant plantation workers from Japan and he looks at the terms under which immigration took place.