Nisei Radicals

"All in all, Nisei Radicals is not only a book well worth reading as a joint biography of two remarkable Nikkei, but I hope will act as a springboard for larger discussions of social justice."—Nichi Bei Weekly

"This transformative work emerges from the author's political commitments and determination, like those of Yamada and Yasutake, to act against exploitation and oppression in time and place."—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of The Boundless Sea: Self and History

"A significant contribution to the fields of Asian American studies and history. By tracing how the siblings' confrontations of sexism, racism, and imperialism evolved over decades, Fujino shows how activism in prior eras informed activism in others."—Daryl Joji Maeda, author of Rethinking the Asian American Movement

"Diane Fujino, the chronicler of Japanese American radicalism, has written another remarkable book about remarkable people. Fujino deftly and sensitively traces the lives and activism of Yamada and Yasutake."—Judy Wu, author of author of Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era

"A robustly theorized and highly readable book that expands our all too limited understanding of postwar Japanese America and firmly situates it in the vibrant, multiracial social world of US and transnational social justice movements in the latter half of the twentieth century."—Meredith Oda, author of The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco

"A delightful blend of biography, social history and poetics that shifts our reading of Japanese American history. Readers will certainly be inspired if not emboldened."—Karen Umemoto, University of California, Los Angeles