具體描述
On February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom, Yuri Kochiyama cradled Malcolm X in her arms as he died, but her role as a public servant and activist had begun much earlier than this pivotal public moment. Heartbeat of Struggle is the first biography of this courageous woman, the most prominent Asian American activist to emerge during the 1960s. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with Kochiyama’s family, friends, and the subject herself, Diane C. Fujino traces Kochiyama’s life from an “all-American” childhood to her accomplishments as a tireless defender of—and fighter for—human rights.
Growing up in a Japanese immigrant family in California during the 1920s and 1930s, Kochiyama was active in sports, school, and church. She was both unquestioningly patriotic and largely unconscious of race and racism in the United States. After Pearl Harbor, however, Kochiyama’s family was among the thousands of Japanese Americans forcibly removed to internment camps for the duration of the war, a traumatic experience that opened her eyes to the existence of social injustice.
After the war, Kochiyama moved to New York. She began her activist career in the vibrant civil rights movement in Harlem in the 1960s, where she met Malcolm X, who inspired her radical political development and the ensuing four decades of incessant work for Black liberation, Asian American equality, Puerto Rican independence, and political prisoner defense. Kochiyama is widely respected for her work in forging unity among diverse communities, especially between Asian and African Americans.
Fujino, a scholar and activist, offers an in-depth examination of Kochiyama’s political awakening, rich life, and impressive achievements with particular attention to how her public role so often defied gender, racial, and cultural norms. Heartbeat of Struggle is a source of inspiration and guidance for anyone committed to social change.
作者簡介
Diane C. Fujino is associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
目錄資訊
Acknowledgments
Family Tree of Yuri Kochiyama
Introduction: Change
1. A Color-Blind Patriot in Prewar America
2. Concentration Camps and a Growing Awareness of Race
3. New York, New Life
4. Plunging into Civil Rights
5. Meeting Malcolm X
6. Transformation of a Revolutionary Nationalist
7. Political Prisoners and the Heartbeat of Struggle
8. Asian Americans and the Rise of a New Movement
9. The Most Incessant Activist
Epilogue: The Never-Ending Struggle
Notes
Index
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讀後感
用戶評價
說實話，我一開始對這種宏大敘事感到有些畏懼，但作者的筆觸卻異常輕盈且富有節奏感。整本書的結構設計得非常巧妙，它像一個精密的鍾錶，每一個齒輪都在恰當的時機咬閤，推動著故事走嚮一個既齣乎意料又在情理之中的結局。語言的運用達到瞭齣神入化的地步，有些段落的措辭簡直是詩一般的存在，充滿瞭張力和美感。我發現自己常常會停下來，反復咀嚼那些富有哲理性的句子，它們不是空洞的說教，而是從角色的切身體驗中自然流淌齣來的智慧結晶。它成功地構建瞭一個完整而自洽的世界觀，無論是曆史背景的鋪陳，還是社會習俗的刻畫，都顯得無比紮實可信。這本書需要慢下來細品，急躁地翻頁隻會錯過那些隱藏在字裏行間的精妙布局和伏筆，真正懂得欣賞它的讀者，會明白時間投入的迴報是多麼豐厚。
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