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Samurai among panthers : Richard Aoki on race, resistance, and a paradoxical life /
"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 illum...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Critical American studies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.