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Passing It On—A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama
Editors: Marjorie Lee, Audee Kochiyama-Holman and Akemi Kochiyama-Sardinha, 2004. 256 pages, 90 photographs, 31 archival documents
Paperback Edition - $20.00
ISBN: 0-934052-37-9
Cloth Edition - $27.00
ISBN 0-934052-38-7
Recipient of the 2004 Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award |
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A memoir by renowned human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, which was published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, received a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for 2004.
The award honors "authors and books that challenge ways of thinking and acting, that allow the many faces and facets of bigotry to replicate over and over again," according to Loretta J. Williams, director of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.
"Passing It On - A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama" is the account of Kochiyama, 83, an extraordinary Japanese American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans and whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoner and womens rights in the United States and internationally for more than half a century. A prolific writer and speaker on human rights, Kochiyama has spoken at more than 100 colleges, universities and high schools in the United States and Canada.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FAMILY
WORLD WAR II AND INTERNMENT CAMPS
WORK AND FRIENDSHIP WITH MALCOLM X & HARLEM FREEDOM SCHOOLS
ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN UNITY
HIROSHIMA ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS
CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE SOUTH
THIRD WORLD, ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND ANTI-APARTHEID STRUGGLES
NATIVE AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
PUERTO RICAN INDEPENDENCE
VIETNAM WAR
VENCEREMOS BRIGADE
ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT
JAPANESE AMERICAN REDRESS AND REPARATIONS
DEFENSE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
ANTI-WAR MOVEMENTS
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News: A memoir by renowned human rights activist Yuri Kochiyama, which was published by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, received a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for 2004. Please click here for more information.
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