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OverviewA 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nobuko Miyamoto , Deborah WongPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 60 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520380646ISBN 10: 0520380649 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 15 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Intro First Movement 1 • A Travelin' Girl 2 • Don’t Fence Me In 3 • A Tisket, a Tasket, a Brown and Yellow Basket 4 • From a Broken Past into the Future 5 • Twice as Good 6 • Shall We Dance! 7 • School Daze 8 • Chop Suey 9 • There's a Place for Us 10 • We Shall Overcome Second Movement 11 • Power to the People 12 • A Single Stone, Many Ripples 13 • Something About Me Today 14 • The People's Beat 15 • A Song for Ourselves 16 • Somos Asiáticos 17 • Foster Children of the Pepsi Generation 18 • A Grain of Sand 19 • Free the Land 20 • What Will People Think? 21 • Some Things Live a Moment 22 • How to Mend What's Broken Third Movement 23 • Women Hold Up Half the Sky 24 • Our Own Chop Suey 25 • What Is the Color of Love? 26 • Talk Story 27 • Yuiyo, Just Dance 28 • Float Hands Like Clouds 29 • Deep Is the Chasm 30 • To All Relations 31 • Bismillah Ir Rahman Ir Rahim 32 • The Seed of the Dandelion 33 • I Dream a Garden 34 • Mottainai—Waste Nothing 35 • Black Lives Matter 36 • Bambutsu—All Things Connected Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsFrank and fierce, her story is bound to inspire. * Ms. Magazine * Starts with a bang and takes off into a poetic whirlwind. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that, at this point, has been rarely written about, especially by someone who lived it. * Rafu Shimpo * Playful, provocative, never boring. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that has been rarely written about. It is well worth reading. * Nichi Bei Weekly * Frank and fierce, her story is bound to inspire. * Ms. Magazine * Starts with a bang and takes off into a poetic whirlwind. . . . The memoir captures an important part of American history that, at this point, has been rarely written about, especially by someone who lived it. * Rafu Shimpo * Author InformationNobuko Miyamoto is a third-generation Japanese American songwriter, dance and theater artist, and activist, and is the Artistic Director of Great Leap. Her work has explored ways to reclaim and decolonize our minds, bodies, histories, and communities, using the arts to create social change and solidarity across cultural borders. Two of Nobuko’s albums are part of the Smithsonian Folkways catalog: A Grain of Sand, with Chris Iijima and Charlie Chin, produced by Paredon Records in 1973, and 120,000 Stories, released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2021. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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