Ganbatte : Sixty Year Struggle of a Kibei Worker / Karl G. Yoneda / Paperback

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ABOUT THIS: Ganbatte: Sixty-Year Struggle of a Kibei Worker Paperback – January 1, 1983 by Karl G. Yoneda (Author) Karl Yoneda is a unique man who self-effacingly describes him-self as "an ordinary working stiff?' Early in life he showed unusual tenacity of purpose. At the age of sixteen, with just a knap-sack on his back, he trekked to Peking, China in search of a blind Russian anarchist writer who had fired his imagination. This autobiography documents his lifelong, tenacious struggle for political, economic, social justice and for racial equality as a Communist, trade-unionist, longshoreman, anti-fascist fighter, writer, and Japanese-American. Simultaneously, it documents, in part, the story of his wife, Elaine, and others who engaged in the same struggle. Born of Japanese immigrant parents in 1906, Karl was one of the first American-born Japanese on the continental United States. His parents hailed from Hiroshima Prefecture. He passed the first seven years of his life in Glendale, California where his parents eked out a living in agriculture. In 1913 he was taken to Japan and spent thirteen formative years there. After World War I, he attended high school in the city of Hiroshima. Attracted by progressive ideas, he avidly read the writings of noted socialists and anarchists and participated in pro-labor activities. In 1926 he returned to his native land in order to avoid being conscripted by the Japanese military. A broad historical perspective is essential to understand the man. Karl's life is interwoven with the history of Japanese-Americans, the Amer

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  • ISBN: 9780934052078
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Ganbatte : Sixty-Year Struggle of a Kibei Worker
  • Author: Karl G. Yoneda
  • Publisher: University of California, Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center
  • Genre: Social Science, Political Science
  • Topic: Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
  • Number of Pages: 240 Pages

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