Tues 10.21.08| Asian Protagonists

Digg this!
 Share & Bookmark

Fred Ho & Bill Mullen, eds., Afro Asia Duke U. Press, 2008

Diane Fujino, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama U. of Minnesota Press, 2005

Listen to this Program:

Download program audio (mp3, 48.82 Mbytes)

According to Diane Fujino, the Black liberation movement of the 1960s played a key role in radicalizing many Asian Americans, including Yuri Kochiyama, who found a mentor in Malcolm X, and Richard Aoki, a prominent early member of the Black Panthers. Novelist Nina Revoyr takes another angle on the Japanese experience in the US; The Age of Dreaming is about a Japanese silent film star in Hollywood.

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.
  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.

More information about formatting options

To combat spam, please enter the code in the image.
All user-submitted comments owned by the Poster. All other content © Against the Grain, a program of KPFA Radio, 94.1fm Berkeley CA and online at KPFA.org. Against the Grain logo designed by Lise Dahms. A.T.G.'s theme music is by Dhamaal.