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A mold-breaking memoir of Asian American identity, political activism, community, and purpose.Not Yo? Butterfly is the intimate and unflinching life story of Nobuko Miyamoto?artist, activist, and mother. Beginning with the harrowing early years of her life as a Japanese American child navigating a fearful west coast during World War II, Miyamoto?leads readers into the landscapes that defined the experiences of twentieth-century America and also?foregrounds the struggles of people of color who reclaimed their histories, identities, and power through activism and art. ? Miyamoto vividly describes her early life in the racialized atmosphere of Hollywood musicals and then her turn toward activism as an Asian American troubadour with the release of A Grain of Sand?considered to be the first Asian American folk album. Her story intersects with Yuri Kochiyama and Grace Lee Boggs, influential in both Asian and Black liberation movements. She tells how her experience of motherhood with an
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