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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 ...