This week in North Philly Notes, we debut the latest episode of the Temple University Press Podcast, which features host Sam Cohn interviewing author Rachel Schreiber about her book Elaine Black Yoneda, the first critical biography of this pioneering Jewish activist.
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About this episode
Elaine Black Yoneda is the remarkable story of a Jewish activist who joined her incarcerated Japanese American husband and son in an American concentration camp during World War II. Author Rachel Schreiber deftly traces Yoneda’s life as she became invested in radical politics and interracial and interethnic activism. 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.
Filed under: american studies, asian american studies, Asian Studies, civil rights, cultural studies, ethics, History, immigration, Jewish, Labor Studies, political science, race and ethnicity, racism, Religion, sociology | Tagged: Actvism, American concentration camp, anti-Asian xenophobia, anti-immigrant, communism, Elaine Black Yoneda, incarceration, Japanese American, Jewish, Radical politics, World War II |
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