Share & BookmarkFred 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
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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.