Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and Incarceration
Autor Rachel Schreiberen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 dec 2021
Elaine Black Yoneda is the first critical biography of this pioneering feminist and activist. Rachel Schreiber deftly traces Yoneda’s life as she became invested in radical politics and interracial and interethnic activism. In her work for the International Labor Defense of the Communist Party, Yoneda rose to the rank of vice president. After their incarceration, Elaine and Karl became active in the campaigns to designate Manzanar a federally recognized memorial site, for redress and reparations to Japanese Americans, and in opposition to nuclear weapons.
Schreiber illuminates the ways Yoneda’s work challenged dominant discourses and how she reconciled the contradictory political and social forces that shaped both her life and her family’s. Highlighting the dangers of anti-immigrant and anti-Asian xenophobia, Elaine Black Yoneda recounts an extraordinary life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439921562
ISBN-10: 1439921563
Pagini: 221
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
ISBN-10: 1439921563
Pagini: 221
Ilustrații: 15 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Recenzii
"Elaine Black Yoneda wonderfully weaves the narrative of Yoneda’s exuberant life into many key historical movements, with a particular focus on the West Coast and California. Schreiber does a fine job of informing the reader on historical questions about race, capitalism, labor relations, economic justice, and the roles of women, both in adversity and in triumph, by weaving those questions into the life stories of Yoneda and her family. The connection to this elegant, feisty, and courageous woman personalizes the history and makes it more accessible."—California History
"[A] concise and informative biography of the relatively well-known, yet under-studied, Communist labor activist.... Elaine Black Yoneda is a lively account of a woman who lived a fascinating life. It brings interesting texture to a life lived through important issues in the histories of immigration, labor, race, ethnicity, and gender.""—The Journal of American Ethnic History
"Rachel Schreiber, an expert on Jewish women labor activists, presents a highly useful biographical sketch of an important figure in Elaine Black Yoneda. Avoiding the extremes of mythologizing or demonizing her subject, she offers a balanced account that historians specializing in women’s history, labor history, and Japanese American history will heartily welcome to the scholarly works in these areas of inquiry."—Brian Hayashi, Professor of History at Kent State University, and author of Asian American Spies: Race, Loyalty, and the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
"Elaine Black Yoneda is an important contribution to the studies of women, labor, radicalism, civil liberties, and ethnicity. Schreiber’s accessible and nuanced biography of California labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda provides a model for scholars writing about radical women; it illuminates Yoneda’s complicated and contradictory stands for civil liberties and civil rights. Schreiber beautifully positions Yoneda within the ethnic, labor, and radical communities in which she operated and offers lucid interpretations of both Yoneda’s personal and professional life and the historical issues and controversies in which she was involved."—Kathleen A. Brown, Professor of History at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas
"Rejecting the limitations placed on working-class Jewish women of her era, Elaine Black Yoneda dedicated her life to fighting oppression. Rachel Schreiber deftly chronicles the journey of this remarkable woman, whose activism traversed many of the key political and social issues of mid-twentieth-century America. Though a work of history, this is a timely book; Schreiber shows us how much her subject’s story can teach us about today’s vital social justice concerns."—Mark Wild, Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles
"[A] concise and informative biography of the relatively well-known, yet under-studied, Communist labor activist.... Elaine Black Yoneda is a lively account of a woman who lived a fascinating life. It brings interesting texture to a life lived through important issues in the histories of immigration, labor, race, ethnicity, and gender.""—The Journal of American Ethnic History
"Rachel Schreiber, an expert on Jewish women labor activists, presents a highly useful biographical sketch of an important figure in Elaine Black Yoneda. Avoiding the extremes of mythologizing or demonizing her subject, she offers a balanced account that historians specializing in women’s history, labor history, and Japanese American history will heartily welcome to the scholarly works in these areas of inquiry."—Brian Hayashi, Professor of History at Kent State University, and author of Asian American Spies: Race, Loyalty, and the Office of Strategic Services during World War II
"Elaine Black Yoneda is an important contribution to the studies of women, labor, radicalism, civil liberties, and ethnicity. Schreiber’s accessible and nuanced biography of California labor activist Elaine Black Yoneda provides a model for scholars writing about radical women; it illuminates Yoneda’s complicated and contradictory stands for civil liberties and civil rights. Schreiber beautifully positions Yoneda within the ethnic, labor, and radical communities in which she operated and offers lucid interpretations of both Yoneda’s personal and professional life and the historical issues and controversies in which she was involved."—Kathleen A. Brown, Professor of History at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas
"Rejecting the limitations placed on working-class Jewish women of her era, Elaine Black Yoneda dedicated her life to fighting oppression. Rachel Schreiber deftly chronicles the journey of this remarkable woman, whose activism traversed many of the key political and social issues of mid-twentieth-century America. Though a work of history, this is a timely book; Schreiber shows us how much her subject’s story can teach us about today’s vital social justice concerns."—Mark Wild, Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles, and author of Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles
Notă biografică
Rachel Schreiber is Executive Dean of The New School's Parsons School of Design. She is the author of Gender and Activism in a Little Magazine: The Modern Figures of the Masses and the editor of Modern Print Activism in the United States.
Descriere
This book offers the first criticalbiography of Elaine Black Yoneda, tracing her story alongside the history of labor activism, Communism, women’s roles in radical movements, and the story of Japanese American exclusion and incarceration across the twentieth century. As one of the small but not insignificant number of non-Japanese Americans in an internment camp during World War II, Black Yoneda’s story illustrates the complex points of solidarity and division within Japanese American and mixed-race family communities from a unique lens.