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Tracing the history of Japanese Americans through the relationship with the history of African-Americans in America: Part 3

Read Part 2 >> Civil Rights and Asian American Movements In fact, in the 1960s, problems arose in…

Masako Miki • Sept. 28, 2020

African Americans Asian American movement Black Americans Black Lives Matter movement Black people civil rights civil rights movement Japanese Americans Redress movement

Ode to Mi Madre and Other Nisei Moms

You could call this a belated birthday message to my mother, Elsie Osajima, who turned 93 this past…

Mary Uyematsu Kao • Jan. 28, 2019

activism Asian American movement Asian Americans for Action (organization) farms generations mothers New Jersey Nisei Seabrook Farms social action United States women

The Story Behind that YELLOW BROTHERHOOD Shirt

In the late 1960s, a group of Los Angeles Japanese American ex-gang members, many at the time eithe…

Erik Matsunaga • Sept. 19, 2017

1960s 1970s Asian American movement California gangs generations Los Angeles Sansei United States Yellow Brotherhood (organization)

A “Powerful” (and “Critical”) Case for the Asian American Movement

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, which prompted the U.…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • March 22, 2017

activism Asian American movement Asian Americans book reviews films Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Jim Matsuoka Karen L. Ishizuka Muslim Americans racism reviews Serve the People (book) social action

Connecting Movements and Memories: On Karen Ishizuka’s Serve The People and the Making and Meanings of the Asian American Movement

“You have to keep changing, because what has happened and what you have been a part of is no long…

Lawrence Lan • June 17, 2016

1960s activism anti-war movement Asian American movement authors books civil rights civil rights movement Gidra (newspaper) Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Karen L. Ishizuka library materials movements publications Serve the People (book) social action

Watershed Moment in Japanese American Civil Rights History: Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, commonly called the Commission Hearings of 1981

Back in 1981, VC (Visual Communications) and NCRR, then known as the National Coalition for Redress…

Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka • Nov. 18, 2013

Asian American movement Redress movement Visual Communications (organization)

Asian American Studies: From its Birth to the Present

On May 26, 2009, Dr. Ronald Takaki, who had been battling multiple sclerosis for many years, took h…

Takamichi "Taka" Go • Nov. 13, 2013

Asian American movement Asian American studies civil rights civil rights movement

Asian American Movement Study Showcases U.S. Cultural Radicalism’s Robust Tradition

At California State University, Fullerton, I taught history, Asian American studies and American st…

Arthur A. Hansen +1 • Oct. 30, 2013

Arthur A. Hansen Asian American movement Asian American studies book reviews Chains of Babylon (book) cultural radicalism culture Daryl J. Maeda identity race radicalism reviews

"Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki, On Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life" by Diane C. Fujino

Best known for his dedication to the Black Panther Party, his leadership in the Asian American Move…

Maya Kochiyama • Dec. 17, 2012

activism Asian American movement Asian American Political Alliance Black Panther Party civil rights Richard Aoki Samurai Among Panthers (book) social action

“It’s not fair!”: Remembering Vincent Chin, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago from this past Saturday, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier,…

Lawrence Lan • June 28, 2012

American Citizens for Justice (organization) Asian American movement Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (organization) civil rights community organizing crime Detroit hate crimes Michigan September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 United States Vincent Chin

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