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He received his PhD in American history in 1967 from and served as a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University Of California, Berkeley Takaki, Ronald. A Larger Memory A History of Our Diversity, With Voices. Little Brown and Company. New York:1998. He designed and lead the Ethnic Studies Ph.D. program there until his retirement in 2004. His teaching has led him around the world to Japan, Russia, Armenia, and South Africa. Recently, in 2005, Takaki won the Asian Pacific Council's Lifetime Achievement Award for a lifetime of service to the Asian American community with his writing, teaching, and exposure to America about issues affecting Asian Americans. The Asian Pacific Council is an organization on the UC Berkeley campus, where he teaches. The Berkeley faculty has awarded him a distinguished teaching award. He was inspired to fight for equality and the Asian American community from his personal experiences where early in his life he faced discrimination as a college student in midwestern America. A key event in his life was when his wife's family (she was a white American) refused to accept him because he was an Asian American. And from that experience he has dedicated his life to the cause of Asian Americans, so that they and he could be accepted in America, as Americans, and not as foreigners and "strangers from a different shore." Some of his books include:
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