User:Vanuliarya

I am an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Biosciences, concentrating in Cell Biology and Genetics, and Cognitive Sciences. Although my academic interests are biology, psychology, and neuroscience, I have deep personal interests in political theory, grassroots movements, and the history of resistance in the United States.

Articles I'm Interested in Editing
Yuri Kochiyama

My Interest

Yuri Kochiyama is an Asian-American woman who was a prominent Civil Rights activist with strong ties to human rights activist Malcolm X. This topic is particularly interesting to me because of the way Kochiyama bridged the struggles and oppression of Asian Americans and African Americans during the civil rights movement. Her socialization of activism changed the struggle for human liberation in the civil rights era, as she created a new meaning of what ‘solidarity’ through grassroots organizing looks like.

Proposed Edits

I notice that the existing article lacks mention of numerous organizations and movements that Kochiyama was a part of in a meaningful way – the Young Lords Party, Harlem Community for Self Defense, New York Justice for Vincent Chin Coalition, the Japanese American Redress and Reparations Movement, and the International Political Prisoner Rights Movement. The lead section mentions her anti-war stance and activism, yet the actual article does not describe her involvement in this. She was actually responsible for initiating a meeting between Malcolm X and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Study Mission from Japan. I would hope to research her involvement in these organizations and her anti-war action, and create robust, well-cited edits to her article page.

Sources:

1. Garrett Felber. “‘Harlem Is the Black World’: The Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Grassroots.” The Journal of African American History 100, no. 2 (2015): 199–225. https://doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.100.2.0199.

2. Fujino, Diane C. “Race, Place, Space, and Political Development: Japanese-American Radicalism in the ‘Pre-Movement’ 1960s.” Social Justice 35, no. 2 (112) (2008): 57–79. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29768488.

3. Maeda, Daryl Joji. “Movement.” In Keywords for Asian American Studies, edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Linda Trinh Võ, and K. Scott Wong, 165–68. NYU Press, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15r3zv2.46.

4. Ho, Fred, and Mullen, Bill, eds. Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans. Duke University Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv120qrf3.

‌5. Fujino, Diane Carol. Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

6. Gore, Dayo F., Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard, eds. Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle. NYU Press, 2009. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qgjjp.

7. Kochiyama, Yuri, et al. Passing It on : A Memoir. Los Angeles, Ca, Ucla Asian American Studies Center Press, 2004.

‌8. Kochiyama, Yuri. “The Impact of Malcolm X on Asian-American Politics and Activism.” Latinos, and Asians in Urban America: Status and Prospects for Politics and Activism. Edited by James Jennings. London: Praeger, 1994. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hist32/Hist33/Impact%20of%20Malcolm%20X.PDF.

9. Kao, Mary Uyematsu, Audee Kochiyama-Holman, Eddie Kochiyama, Ryan Kochiyama, Kai Williams, Karen Tei Yamashita, Thandisizwe Chimurenga, Renee Tajima-Peña, and Diane C Fujino. “Tributes to Yuri Kochiyama.” Amerasia journal 40, no. 3 (2014): 1–33.

10. Ishizuka, Karen L., and Jeff Chang. Serve the People : Making Asian America in the Long Sixties. London: Verso, 2016.

Other Sources

1. “Asian Americans in the People’s History of the United States - Zinn Education Project.” 2021. Zinn Education Project. April 23, 2021. https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/asian-americans-and-moments-in-peoples-history/#Yuri_Kochiyama.

2. L1em, Brenda Joy. An Interview with Harlem Community Activist Yuri Kochiyama. Fireweed, 1994.

Sources to Improve the Media Appearances Section

1. “Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice.” 1993. IMDb. October 15, 1993. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268768/.

2. Lee, Mimi. 2017. “Power to the People: The Yuri Kochiyama Story.” IMDb. May 7, 2017. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10644096/