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Not Yo' Butterfly - My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (Paperback)
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Not Yo' Butterfly - My Long Song of Relocation, Race, Love, and Revolution (Paperback)
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. Â 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. Â 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
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
American Crossroads, 60 |
Release date: |
June 2021 |
First published: |
2021 |
Authors: |
Nobuko Miyamoto
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Editors: |
Deborah Wong
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
344 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-38065-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-38065-7 |
Barcode: |
9780520380653 |
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