<div dir="ltr">FYI<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Max</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cynthia del Rosario</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyn@uw.edu">cyn@uw.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:40 AM<br>Subject: [UWMOSAIC] Serve the People talk by Karen Ishizuka on Thursday, April 21 at 1:30 at Benson Hall 117<br>To: "<a href="mailto:uwmosaic@uw.edu">uwmosaic@uw.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:uwmosaic@uw.edu">uwmosaic@uw.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Gail Nomura</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Serve the People</i> Tells How “Orientals” Became Asian Americans </b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">by author Karen Ishizuka<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thursday, April 21<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1:30pm<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Benson Hall 117<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Serve the People</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Tells How “Orientals” Became Asian Americans</span> </b><u></u><u></u></p>
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“There was a time, Karen Ishizuka reminds us, when the word ‘Asian American’ was not merely a demographic category, but a fight you were picking with the world.” <u></u><u></u></p>
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-- From the foreword by Jeff Chang, author of <i>Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post-Civil Rights America </i><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Until the late 1960s and 1970s, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Karen
Ishizuka’s new book, <em>Serve the People: Making Asian America in the Long Sixties</em> - released by Verso Books on March 1, 2016 - tells the history of how and why the yoke of “oriental” was shed and Asian America came to be.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ishizuka’s vivid narrative reveals profound insights and intimate stories of movers and shakers as well as ground-level activists. Drawing on more than 120 interviews and illustrated
with striking images from guerrilla movement publications, the book evokes the feeling of growing up alien in a society rendered only in black and white, and recalls the intricate memories and meanings of the Asian American movement. By painting a panoramic
yet personal landscape of a momentous time, <em>Serve the People</em> fills out the history of the Sixties and Seventies and is destined to become the definitive book on the making of Asian America. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “With meticulous research and more than a hundred interviews, Karen Ishizuka traces the links between Yellow Power and other radical movements. This engaging book breaks through
to new levels of insight into this still-neglected movement of far-reaching influence.”<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> – Helen Zia, author of <i>Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People</i> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“Karen Ishizuka deftly captures a generation of activist voices from San Francisco to Los Angeles, Seattle to New York. This thoughtful history chronicles a movement just as significant
as the Black and Chicano movements and provides a revelatory insight into what it means to be American.” <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> – Jesús Treviño, author of <i>Eyewitness: A Filmmaker’s Memoir of the Chicano Movement</i> <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“<i>Serve the People</i> describes beautifully not merely the making of a people but an entire era. People of color, women, queer people, students, and the working class altered
US history by making the nation more democratic and aware of its imperialism. This is a work of immense significance.”<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> - Gary Y. Okihiro, author of <i>American History Unbound: Asians and Pacific Islanders</i><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> “<i>Serve the People</i> chronicles the hard-fought history of a new awareness—the story of how we became Asian America.”<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> --Phil Yu, <i>Angry Asian Man</i><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See <a href="http://www.versobooks.com/books/1899-serve-the-people" target="_blank">http://www.versobooks.com/books/1899-serve-the-people</a> for more information.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u>Author Bio</u>:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Karen L. Ishizuka<b> </b>is a Sansei who was part of the Asian American movement in Los Angeles. She is the author of <i>Lost & Found: Reclaiming the Japanese American Incarceration </i>(University
of Illinois Press, 2006) as well as many published articles, and coeditor of <i>Mining the Home Movie</i>:<i> Excavations in Histories and Memories </i>(University of California Press, 2007). An award-winning documentary film producer and museum curator, she
helped establish the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and, together with Robert A. Nakamura will be honored at their Gala Dinner on March 19, 2016. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles and previously
a MSW from San Diego State University. <u></u><u></u></p>
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