Gidra 1.7
- Asian American Studies Conference. by Colin Watanabe
- Issei Centenial. by Jim Matsuoka
- Easy Rider: A True Episode. A serious account of a hate crime against two Asian American hitchhikers in a midwestern city.
- "Aion: an Asian American Quarterly." An announcement about the creation of Aion, an Asian-American themed literary journal.
- Okinawa. Unsigned. An account of a meeting with political figure from Japan on the topic of the U.S. occupation of Okinawa.
- "Shh! A Nisei is Speaking." by Mrs. Mary Tani. A response to the controversy over Bill Hosokawa's recently-published memoir, Nisei: the Quiet American. Letters had been circulating in other Japanese-American magazines (especially Pacific Citizen); here the debate is introduced to the readers of Gidra.
- "I am Curious [Yellow?]." by Violet Rabaya. A personal essay on Filipino identity -- which asks whether and how the Filipino community should be understood as "Asian American." Reprinted in Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971).
- "The Emergence of Yellow Power in America." By Amy Uyematsu. A serious consideration of the concept of a "Yellow Power" movement modeled on the Black Power movement. Stokely Carmichael is cited; Uyematsu walks through issues facing Asian American activists, including self-hatred, assimilation, the model minority myth, and the business orientation of the Asian community at that time. Reprinted in Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971)
Poems
- "Introspect" by Joyce Sakamoto
- "To be yellow" by George
- "An Oriental in Search of a Soul: A Revelation in Three Parts." By Violet Rabaya