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Passing It On -- A Memoir by Yuri Kochiyama
BOOK DESCRIPTIONA 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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