During his youth, he was known as Ten-Toes Takaki for his hang-ten style of surfing. The grandson of Japanese immigrant plantation laborers in Hawaii, Ronald Toshiyuki Takaki was born in Honolulu.
By highlighting their voices in songs, poetry, and oral history, Takaki made US history both readable and relatable. His lyrical storytelling featured the lives of seemingly ordinary people who made extraordinary contributions to the US economy, politics, and culture. His research and teaching foregrounded the experiences of racial and ethnic groups who had been excluded or marginalized in traditional historical accounts. On May 26, 2009, the historical discipline lost Ronald Takaki, one of the most preeminent scholars of American multicultural history.
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