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A 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.
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.
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INDEX
100 Years from Mississippi, 282–83
120,000 Stories, 209, 280, 309, 312ch15n1, 313ch16n1, 314n1, 314ch24n2, 315ch30n2, 315ch32n1, 315ch34n2, 315ch34n3, 316ch36n2
442 Infantry Regiment, 32, 112
“A Tisket, a Tasket, a Brown and Yellow Basket” (song), 22
A&M Records, 114
Abe, George, 222, 277, 288, 299 (photo 25), 312n3
acting, 82
activists and activism, 43, 67, 98, 103, 113, 116, 118, 120, 122, 132–33, 138–44, 153, 206–7, 241, 253, 264–69, 275, 278, 312ch15n3, 313ch15n5
Actor’s Equity, 68
Adoration of Amaterasu, 85
African Americans (Blacks), 9, 51, 79–80, 83, 85, 111, 125, 145, 157, 166, 176, 178, 182, 186, 188, 201, 288, 305; Black community, 25, 26, 53, 98, 115, 119, 123, 170, 210–214, 228, 236–39; “Ol’ Black Jo” and “Little Black Sambo,” 28. See also kuro-chan
Afro-Asian, 180, 191–92, 291, 314ch22n1
agent, 71
AIDS, 217–18
Aihara, Doug, 222
Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, 204
Alcatraz, 241
Alien Land Law, 6
Alonso, Alicia, 30; Alicia Alonso Ballet, 57–58
Amerasia Bookstore, 288
American Ballet Theatre, 39, 57
“American Made,” 206, 314ch24n2
American School of Dance, 37–43, 52, 58, 72–73
ancestors, 129, 131, 165, 201, 209, 218, 221–222, 256, 261, 263, 268, 274, 279, 287, 292
Anderson, Donna and Paula, 39, 41
Anderson, Lee, 84
Anderson, Marion, 82
anti-miscegenation laws, 16
Aratani Japan America Theatre, 215, 289
Ar...
Table of contents
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Intro
- First Movement
- Second Movement
- Third Movement
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index