Roots: An Asian American Reader (1971)
Roots was edited by Amy Tachiki, Eddie Wong, Franklin Odo, and Buck Wong. The introduction is by Amy Tachiki.
The volume contains a mix of academic essays, poetry, interviews conducted by the editors, journalistic accounts of current issues, and personal essays. Many of the texts included in the anthology are reprinted from other journals, including various issues of Gidra, Rodan, Amerasia Journal, Asian American Political Alliance Newspaper, Hawaii Free Press, and Kalayaan International.
Finally, the volume contains a list of "Movement Journals," including those listed above as well as Asian Women's Journal (published at UC Berkeley), Aion, Getting Together, and Hawaii Pono Journal.
Poems in the collection include:
"Roots" by Ron Tanaka (Gidra 1.8)
"From a Lotus Blossom Cunt" by Tomi Tanaka
"Revolution Point Zero: 1967 (or whatever)" by Mary Uyematsu
"Rapping With One Million Carabaos in the Dark" by Al Robles
"The Trouble With Losing Face is, you become in visible" by Marie Chung
"Stormy Weather" by Shin'ya Ono
"Asian Brother, Asian Sister" by Lawson Inada
"I hate my wife for her flat yellow face" by Ron Tanaka (from Gidra 1.6)
Essays of note include:
"Response and Change for the Asian in America: A Survey of Asian American Literature" by Bruce Iwasaki
"White Male Qualities" by Anonymous
"The Intolerance of Success" by Daniel Okimoto
"The Emergence of Yellow Power in America" by Amy Uyematsu (from Gidra 1.7)
"Am Curious (Yellow?)" by Violet Rabaya (from Gidra 1.7)
"The Failure of Democracy in a Time of Crisis" by Isao Fujimoto (from Gidra 1.6)
"Autobiography of a Sansei Female" by Anonymous
"A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Newly Found Asian Male" by Ron Low
"New York Chinatown Today: Community in Crisis" by Rocky Chin (from Amerasia Journal 1.1)
"Koreans in America, 1903-1945" by Linda Shin (from Amerasia Journal 1.3)
Book Review of Nisei: The Quiet Americans. by Yuji Ichioka (from Gidra 2.1)
GIs and Asian Women by Evelyn Yoshimura. (from Asian Women [1971])
Full Table of Contents:
Introduction, Amy Tachiki |
Success Story of One Minority Group in America, U.S. News and World Report |
The Emergence of Yellow Power in America, Amy Uyematsu |
The Intolerance of Success, Daniel Okimoto |
An Interview with S.I. Hayakawa, Editorial Board |
The Nature of G.I. Racism, Norman Nakamura |
G.I.’s and Asian Women, Evelyn Yoshimura |
That Oriental Feeling, Irvin Paik |
Selective Acculturation and the Dating Process: the Patterning of Chinese – Caucasian Interracial Dating by Melford Weiss |
White Male Qualities |
‘I hate my wife for her flat yellow face,’ Ron Tanaka |
Generation and Character: the Case of the Japanese Americans, Stanford Lyman |
Chinese – American Personality and Mental Health, Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue |
An Interview with Harry Kitano, Editorial Board |
Response and Change for the Asian in America: a Survey of Asian American Literature, Bruce Iwasaki |
Roots, Ron Tanaka |
A Brief Biographical Sketch of a Newly Found Asian Male, Ron Low |
From a lotus blossom cunt, Tomi Tanaka |
Am Curious (Yellow?), Violet Rabaya |
Revolution point zero: 1967 (or whenever), Mary Uyematsu |
Autobiography of a Sansei Female |
Rapping with One Million Carabaos in the Dark, Al Robles |
The trouble with losing face is, you become invisible Marie Chung |
Stormy Weather, Shin’ya Ono |
Asian Brother, Asian Sister, Lawson Inada |
History |
Introduction, Buck Wong |
Causes of Chinese Emigration, Pyau Ling |
One Hundred Years of Japanese Labor in the USA, Karl Yoneda |
Strangers in the City; the Chinese in the Urban Frontier, Stanford Lyman |
Filipino Immigration: the Creation of a New Social Problem, Violet Rabaya |
Koreans in America, 1903 – 1945, Linda Shin |
The Failure of Democracy in a Time of Crisis, Isao Fujimoto |
The Cherishing of Liberty: the American Nisei, Bill Hosokawa |
Book Review of Nisei: The Quiet Americans, Yuji Ichioka |
The U.S. in Asia and Asians in the U.S., Franklin Odo with Mary Uyematsu, Ken Hanada, Peggy Li, Marie Chung |
Community |
Introduction, Eddie Wong |
AAPA Perspectives |
Understanding AAPA |
An Interview with Pat Sumi, Editorial Board |
Concept of Asian American Studies |
Need for Awareness: an Essay on Chinatown San Francisco, Buck Wong |
Asian Community Center |
An Interview with L. Ling-Chi Wang, Editorial Board |
New York Chinatown Today: Community in Crisis, Rocky Chin |
I Wor Kuen: twelve-point program |
Asian Women as Leaders |
The Asian American Experience in Sacramento River Delta, Ken Suyama |
Sour Grapes: Symbol of Oppression, Phillip Vera Cruz |
An Interview with Phillip Vera Cruz, Editorial Board |
International Hotel |
Filipinos: a Fast Growing U.S. Minority – Philippines Revolution, KALAYAAN Editorial Collective |
Save Kalama Valley – Hawaii |
This Land is Mine |
Raising the Fist |
Tourism: Decline of Aloha, Roy Tsumoto |
Hawaiian Homestead Struggle, Laura Alancastre and Gloria Burbage |
Little Tokyo: Searching the Psat and Analyzing the Future, Jim H. Matsuoka |
An Interview with Warren Furutani, Editorial Board |
J.U.S.T. Platform |
List of Movement Journals |