Not Yo' ButterflyAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 15 June 2021
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A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose. Not Yoâ?T Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamotoâ?"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, MiyamotoA leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and alsoA foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. A 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 Sandâ?"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 riotsâ?"and how she used art to create interracial solidarity and conciliation. A 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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