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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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. "My Happy Childhood That I Don't Remember"
• Disrupting the Deviant
• Noble Binary
• 2. "Protecting the Japanese"
• 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"
• Old Left, Third World Radicalism, and Vietnam
• 6. "The Greatest Political Opportunity of My Life"
• Joining the Black Panther Party
• 7. "Support All Oppressed Peoples"
• Founding the Asian American Political Alliance
• 8. "It Was about Taking Care of the Collective"
• Revolutionary Potential of the Third World Strike
• 9. "A Community-Oriented Academic Unit"
• Birth of Asian American Studies
• 10. "An Advocate for the Students"

• Counselor, Instructor, Administrator
• 11. "At Least I Was There"
• Rebirth in Activism.

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Author/Creator:

Fujino, Diane Carol

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Samurai among panthers: Richard Aoki on race, resistance, and a paradoxical life [by Fujino, D.C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Samurai among panthers [by Fujino, D.C.] (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012 — ISBN 9780816677863; LCCN 2012000476)

Related Series:

Critical American studies series

Subjects:

Aoki, Richard, 1938-2009

Black Panther Party — Biography

Asian American Political Alliance (Berkeley, Calif.) — Biography

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

United States — Race relations

Genres:

Bibliographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

F870.J3 F87 2012eb

ISBNs:

9780816680368 (electronic bk.)
0816680361 (electronic bk.)
9780816677863 (hbk.) [Invalid]
0816677867 (hbk.) [Invalid]
9780816677870 (pbk.) [Invalid]
0816677875 (pbk.) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012000476 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1043659359

Other Control Numbers:

EBC902546 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp7623342