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Not Yo' Butterfly - My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,941
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Not Yo' Butterfly - My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (Hardcover): Nobuko Miyamoto

Not Yo' Butterfly - My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (Hardcover)

Nobuko Miyamoto; Edited by Deborah Wong

Series: American Crossroads, 60

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A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yo' Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto-artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand-considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her narrative intersects with the stories of Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an Afro-Asian son, as well as a marriage that intertwined Black and Japanese families and communities, placed her at the nexus of the 1992 Rodney King riots-and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation. Through it all, Miyamoto has embraced her identity as an Asian American woman to create an antiracist body of work and a blueprint for empathy and praxis through community art. Her sometimes barbed, often provocative, and always steadfast story is now told.

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Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Crossroads, 60
Release date: June 2021
First published: 2021
Authors: Nobuko Miyamoto
Editors: Deborah Wong
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38064-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
Books > Biography > General
Books > Music > Non-Western music, traditional & classical
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LSN: 0-520-38064-9
Barcode: 9780520380646

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