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Ronald Takaki (April 12, 1939 - May 26, 2009) was an academic, historian, ethnographer and author. Born in Oahu, Hawai'i, his work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority...
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Ronald T. Takaki, a prolific and controversial scholar who helped pioneer the field of ethnic studies and wrote animated histories about blacks, Asians, Latinos and other marginalized Americans during four decades on the UC Berkeley faculty, has died. ... Takaki obituary: The obituary of Ronald T. Takaki,
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The Asian American Studies program expresses its profound sorrow at the loss of Ronald Takaki, world-renowned Asian American scholar and public intellectual. He had retired in 2002. After struggling for almost two decades with multiple sclerosis, he died by his own hand on May 26, 2009.
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It is with great sadness to announce that Professor Emeritus Ronald Takaki passed away on the evening of May 26th, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Carol Takaki, his three children Dana, Troy, and Todd Takaki, and his grandchildren.
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Ronald Takaki didn't just teach about race and ethnicity. He helped redefine it. When students in the 1960s demanded that universities start teaching American history that went beyond the lives of ... Ronald Takaki didn't just teach about race and ethnicity. He helped redefine it.
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BERKELEY — Ronald Takaki, professor emeritus of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and a preeminent scholar of U.S. race relations who taught the University of California's first black history course, died at his home in Berkeley on Tuesday, May 26, at age 70. He had struggled for years...
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May 31, 2009 ... Mr. Takaki made it his life's work to rewrite American history to include Asian-Americans and other ethnic groups excluded from traditional ...
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Ronald Takaki. the grandson of Japanese plantation laborers in Hawaii, is Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Takaki received his Ph.D. in American history from Berkeley in 1967. After graduation, he was hired by UCLA to teach that school's first Black History course.
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