Yellow Power, Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho

Contributors

contributors roGer n. BucKleY is a professor of history and the founding director of the Asian American Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. He is the recipient of numerous research awards and fellowships, among them the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Sir William Osler Medical Library Fellowship at McGill University, the Provost Fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and the John Carter Brown Library Fellowship at Brown University. His numerous books and journal articles, which include works of historical and popular fiction, have been published in the United States, the United Kingdom, India , the Netherlands, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and St. Kitts. His scholarly books include Slaves in Red Coats, The Haitian Journal of Lieutenant Howard, The Napoleonic War Journal of Captain Thomas Henry Browne, and The British Army in the West Indies: Society and the Military in the Revolutionary Age. His fiction includes Congo Jack, The Death and Life of An Irish Soldier, and I, Hanuman. Singh’s Choice, his latest novel, is currently under review. He is currently writing a history of the Japanese community of Montreal. For more information, visit www.rogerbuckley.com. PeGGY mYo-YounG choY is a choreographer-dancer-educator and warrior woman for social transformation. She is founder and director of the Ki Project Inc., an organization dedicated to creative thinking and intercultural performance for future generations. Her dance-theater works are informed by her childhood in Hawai’i, Javanese and Korean dance and martial-arts training, and long-term artistic interchanges with Sasminta Mardawa, Sun Ock Lee, and Fred Ho. Choy teaches in the University of Wisconsin–Madison Dance Department and the Asian American Studies Program. 256 Contributors JAYne corTez is the author of eleven books of poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez has presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals around the world. Her poems have been translated into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is the recipient of several awards, including Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, the international African Festival Award, the Langston Hughes Medal, the American Book Award, and the Thelma McAndless Distinguished Professorship Award. Her most recent books are The Beautiful Book (Bola Press) and Jazz Fan Looks Back (Hanging Loose Press). Her latest CDs with the Firespitter Band are Find Your Own Voice, Borders of Disorderly Time (Bola Press), and Taking the Blues Back Home, produced by Harmalodic and by Verve Records. Cortez was organizer of the international symposium “Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition and Creative Progress” (New York University, 2008), and director of the film Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization. She is cofounder and president of the Organization of Women Writers of Africa Inc. and appears in the films Women in Jazz and Poetry in Motion. Kevin fellezS, is assistant professor of music at Columbia University, where he shares a joint appointment in the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. His Birds of Fire: Jazz, Rock, Funk and the Creation of Fusion (Duke University Press) is a study of fusion (jazz-rock-funk) music of the 1970s framed by insights drawn from ethnic studies, jazz studies, and popular music studies. Fellezs has published articles in Jazz Perspectives, Journal of Popular Music Studies, Popular Music History, and the Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter. He is also a pianist, keyboardist, and composer . His compositions have appeared on a variety of recordings, including a waltz, “C. Howsheruns,” on Gerald Beckett’s recording Black Eyes (2002, Wolfetones). Fellezs holds a PhD in the history of consciousness (American Studies) from the University of California, Santa Cruz. diAne c. fuJino is professor and chair of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her teaching and scholarship center on the Asian American movement, Japanese American history, and AfroAsian radicalism. She is the author of Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama; and Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life; and editor of Wicked Theory, Naked 257 Contributors Practice: A Fred Ho Reader, all with the University of Minnesota Press. Her current research focuses on Japanese American activism in the early Cold War, the contested nature of citizenship...