It brought about a greater understanding of the nation's highest principals of democracy and racial equality. We now ask how a good and moral war could end with the indiscriminate mass killing of civilians. My book raises the question of race. If you look at my scholarship, race has been a factor throughout American history. This is what is going to make my book controversial.
People have trouble dealing with the 'r' word.
In 1993, Takaki was the Messenger Lecturer at Cornell University and has been honored with a Distinguished Teaching Award at Berkeley. He has presented papers in Japan, Russia, Armenia and South Africa. He is both a scholar and a leader. As a new member of the historian society, Takaki joins the likes of such luminaries in the field of history as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., C. Van Woodward, John Hope Franklin and Berkeley colleague Leon Litwack. Takaki was voted into the society by the membership, limited to 250 fellows.