Resistance

Resistance- Resistance has been a key theme in in Takaki's Pacific Crossings chapter. Takaki mentions on p.258 how Japanese workers, against popular notion that they were passive, agressively went on strike and numbered in the thousands as they did. He mentions how they also worked with other groups, such as the Filipino workers, to go on strike as well. Resistance was alos important to the beginning of Brodkin's discussion the Jewish immigrants in the US in How The Jews Became White. She mentions on p. 41-42 how Jews thought that through hard work and trying their best and sticking together, that they would overcome the waves of anti-Semitism in America.