Title Samurai among panthers : Richard Aoki on race, resistance, and a paradoxical life / Diane C. Fujino

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 441 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Series Critical American studies series Critical American studies series. Contents 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 Summary "An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and '70s. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the history of ethnic nationalism and radical internationalism in America"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Aoki, Richard, 1938-2009. SUBJECT Aoki, Richard, 1938-2009 fast Aoki, Richard, 1938-2009. fast/nic/nac Subject Black Panther Party -- Biography Asian American Political Alliance (Berkeley, Calif.) -- Biography SUBJECT Asian American Political Alliance (Berkeley, Calif.) fast Black Panther Party fast Subject 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 -- Biography Japanese Americans -- California -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage. African Americans -- Civil rights Asian Americans -- Civil rights Civil rights movements Japanese Americans Political activists Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject California United States Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816680368 0816680361 145294783X 9781452947839

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