"When the young Japanese American, sporting a crew cut, walked into the classroom for the first time, the students, some wearing Afros and dashikis, fell silent. One student finally spoke up.
"'Well, Prof. Takaki,' the student said in a challenging tone, 'what revolutionary tools are we going to learn in this course?' Takaki replied: 'We're going to study the history of the U.S. as it relates to African Americans. We're going to strengthen our critical-thinking skills and our writing skills. These can be revolutionary tools if we make them so.'"
Elaine Woo in the Los Angeles Times reports the death of historian Ronald Takaki.
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