{"id":659,"date":"2009-05-28T22:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T03:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=659"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:15","slug":"ron-takaki-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/05\/ron-takaki-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Takaki has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/2009\/05\/noted-historian-passes.html\">AndrewMc<\/a> passes on the word from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianweek.com\/2009\/05\/27\/remembering-ron-takaki\/\">AsianWeek<\/a> that one of the founders of ethnic studies and real multi-ethnic immigration history has passed away. Takaki was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\/2009\/05\/15169341780912109\">an Americanist<\/a> primarily, but as I said at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressivehistorians.com\">PH<\/a>, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Takaki&#8217;s scholarship on ethnicity and immigration were part of the generation of scholarship which cracked the &#8220;Great White Men&#8221; historiography in both US and World studies.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly my own scholarship on migration would be inconceivable without scholars like him raising issues and questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.the next generation, and ours, building on Takaki&#8217;s foundations, which began to make the study of migration truly transnational.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never got to meet Takaki, though I suppose I was only a handshake away from him during my Berkeley sojourn, but I benefitted immensely from the institutions he helped build and the scholarship he fostered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AndrewMc passes on the word from AsianWeek that one of the founders of ethnic studies and real multi-ethnic immigration history has passed away. Takaki was an Americanist primarily, but as I said at PH, Takaki&#8217;s scholarship on ethnicity and immigration were part of the generation of scholarship which cracked the &#8220;Great White Men&#8221; historiography in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[166,114,126,129,63,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-diaspora","category-general","category-historiography","category-japan","category-us-japan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-aD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}