Nisei radicals [electronic resource] : the feminist poetics and transformative ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake / Diane C. Fujino.

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"Demanding liberation, advocating for the oppressed, and organizing for justice, siblings Mitsuye Yamada (1923-) and Michael Yasutake (1920-2001) rebelled against respectability and assimilation, charting their own paths for what it means to be Nisei. Raised in Seattle and then forcibly removed and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fujino, Diane Carol (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Subjects:	Yamada, Mitsuye. Yasutake, Michael, > 1920-2001 Japanese Americans > Biography. Asian Americans > Civil rights. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century. Social justice > United States > History > 20th century. Human rights workers > United States > Biography. Clergy > Illinois > Chicago > Biography. Poets > California > Irvine > Biography.
Genre:	Biography.
Online Access:	EBSCO eBooks: 2020 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2020 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:	Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Growing Up Nisei in Seattle
Concentration Camps, Family Separations, and Postwar Life
Resisting Cold War Femininity
Faith-based Social Justice and Other Matters of Dissent
"Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster:" Writing for Freedom and Feminism
Jubilee Liberation and Political Prisoners
Land Is Life: Internationalism, Solidarity, and Decolonization
The Struggle Continues
Conclusion: Invention, Imagination, and Transcendent Citizenship.