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Excerpts from the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project: Interview with Peggy Saika by Loretta Ross
- Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 10, Number 2, 2010
- pp. 163-197
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In this oral history, Saika underscores the lasting impact of the internment experience as a call to vigilance and action. She traces her political involvements from pan-Asian student activism in the late 1960s forward, marking her journey through various forms of organizing: direct service, civil rights, community organizing, and philanthropy. The interview offers a general outline of Saika's path as a postwar progressive who embraces her generation's challenge to build an ethnic movement that affirms Asian American identity and rights while it also advances a broad anti-racist, feminist, class-conscious social justice agenda.