Ronald Takaki Quote
At the state’s constitutional convention of 1878, John F. Miller warned: Were the Chinese to amalgamate at all with our people, it would be the lowest, most vile and degraded of our race, and the result of that amalgamation would be a hybrid of the most despicable, a mongrel of the most detestable that has ever afflicted the earth. Two years later, California lawmakers enacted legislation to prohibit the issuance of a license authorizing the marriage of a white person with a negro, mulatto, or Mongolian.
Ronald Takaki
At the state’s constitutional convention of 1878, John F. Miller warned: Were the Chinese to amalgamate at all with our people, it would be the lowest, most vile and degraded of our race, and the result of that amalgamation would be a hybrid of the most despicable, a mongrel of the most detestable that has ever afflicted the earth. Two years later, California lawmakers enacted legislation to prohibit the issuance of a license authorizing the marriage of a white person with a negro, mulatto, or Mongolian.
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About Ronald Takaki
His work addresses stereotypes of Asian Americans, such as the model minority concept. Among his most notable books are Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian-Americans from 1989 and A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America from 1993. Takaki was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1966 to 1971 and University of California, Berkeley from 1971 to 2003.