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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816653503321

Autore

Fujino Diane Carol

Titolo

Samurai among panthers [[electronic resource] ] : Richard Aoki on race, resistance, and a paradoxical life / / Diane C. Fujino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012

ISBN

1-4529-4783-X

0-8166-8036-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (475 p.)

Collana

Critical American studies

Disciplina

323.092

B

Soggetti

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Asian Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Political activists - California

Japanese Americans - California

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: Demystifying the Japanese Radical Cat; 1. "My Happy Childhood That I Don't Remember"; Disrupting the Deviant-Noble Binary; 2. "Protecting the Japanese"; The Ungrieved Trauma of Internment; 3. "Learning to Do the West Oakland Dip"; Masculinity, Race, and Citizenship in Postwar Oakland; 4. "I Was a Man by the Standards of the 'Hood"; Military Misadventures and Cold War Masculinity; 5. "My Identification Went with the Aspirations of the Masses"; The Old Left, Third World Radicalism, and Vietnam; 6. "The Greatest Political Opportunity of My Life"

Joining the Black Panther Party7. "Support All Oppressed Peoples"; Founding the Asian American Political Alliance; 8. "It Was about Taking Care of the Collective"; The Revolutionary Potential of the Third World Strike; 9. "A Community-Oriented Academic Unit"; The Birth of Asian American Studies; 10. "An Advocate for the Students"; Counselor, Instructor, Administrator; 11. "At Least I Was There"; A Rebirth in Activism; Epilogue: Reflecting on a Movement Icon; Acknowledgments;



Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

The first biography of Asian American activist and Black Panther Party member Richard Aoki