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Contents Abbreviations ix Introduction: Demystifying the Japanese Radical Cat xi . “My Happy Childhood That I Don’t Remember”  Disrupting the Deviant–Noble Binary  . “Protecting the Japanese”  The Ungrieved Trauma of Internment  . “Learning to Do the West Oakland Dip”  Masculinity, Race, and Citizenship in Postwar Oakland  . “I Was a Man by the Standards of the ’Hood”  Military Misadventures and Cold War Masculinity  . “My Identification Went with the Aspirations of the Masses”  The Old Left, Third World Radicalism, and Vietnam  . “The Greatest Political Opportunity of My Life”  Joining the Black Panther Party  . “Support All Oppressed Peoples”  Founding the Asian American Political Alliance  . “It Was about Taking Care of the Collective”  The Revolutionary Potential of the Third World Strike  . “A Community-Oriented Academic Unit”  The Birth of Asian American Studies  . “An Advocate for the Students”  Counselor, Instructor, Administrator  . “At Least I Was There”  A Rebirth in Activism  Epilogue: Reflecting on a Movement Icon  Acknowledgments  Notes  Bibliography  Index  ...

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