Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama and Wicked Theory,
Naked Practice
(authored by Fred Ho and edited by Diane Fujino) will be available
for purchase at the UCSB Bookstore.
Dr. Fujino’s scholarship uncovers the hidden and unruly history of Asian American
resistance and thereby paints a more complete and complex picture of Asian America
that moves beyond the image of passive, model minorities. Her book, Heartbeat of
Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, focuses on the renowned activist
Yuri Kochiyama, who drew inspiration from Malcolm X and modeled caring and humanizing
ways of working in militant struggles. Wicked Theory, Naked Practice, edited by
Diane Fujino, showcases Fred Ho's musical, intellectual, and activist efforts to
integrate politics and culture and Afro-Asian linkages. Her current book project
explores the impact of Japanese American internment and life in Black West Oakland
on Richard Aoki's work in the Black Panther Party, the early Asian American Movement,
and the struggle for ethnic studies at UC Berkeley. During the 2009-2010 academic
year, Professor Fujino will teach Japanese American History (AsAm 100BB), Introduction
to Asian American Gender and Sexuality (AsAm 8), Third World Social Movements (AsAm
107), as well as a Freshman Seminar in both winter and spring quarters on the life
of Yuri Kochiyama. She hopes her two young sons will help to create a world filled
with a deep caring for our global humanity and environment.
