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Heartbeat of struggle : the revolutionary life of Yuri Kochiyama / Diane C. Fujino.
Van Pelt Library E184.J3 F8335 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fujino, Diane Carol.
- Series:
- Critical American studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kochiyama, Yuri.
- Japanese Americans--California--Biography.
- Japanese Americans.
- Japanese Americans--New York (State)--Biography.
- Asian Americans--Civil rights.
- Asian Americans.
- New York (State).
- California.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxiv, 396 pages, 16 unnumbered p of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- On February 12, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist had begun much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Growing up in a Japanese immigrant family in California, Kochiyama was largely unconscious of race and racism. After Pearl Harbor, however, Kochiyama's family was among those forcibly removed to internment camps, a traumatic experience that opened her eyes to social injustice. Kochiyama began her activist career in the civil rights movement in Harlem, where she met Malcolm X, who inspired her political development and the ensuing four decades of work for Black liberation, Asian American equality, Puerto Rican independence, and political prisoner defense. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian American activist to emerge during the 1960s.
- Contents:
- Family tree of Yuri Kochiyama
- A colorblind patriot in prewar America
- Concentration camps and a growing awareness of race
- New York, new life
- Plunging into civil rights
- Meeting Malcolm X
- Transformation of a revolutionary nationalist
- Political prisoners and the heartbeat of struggle
- Asian Americans and the rise of a new movement
- The most incessant activist
- Epilogue : the never ending struggle.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816645922
- 0816645930
- OCLC:
- 57069512
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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