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Film Discussion and a Conversation with the Kochiyama Family and Rea Tajiri, renowned film producer of "Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice" about cross-racial unity and the prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement Yuri Kochiyama who fought for all Americans across racial and socioeconomic boundaries.  The event is open to the general public.  Registration is required to receive the event's Zoom link.  Audience can watch the film in advance via UD's Delcat 24/7 at (https://delcat.on.worldcat.org/oclc/964661633)

 

YURI KOCHIYAMA (May 19, 1921 – June 1, 2014) was an American civil rights activist and a major figure in Civil Rights Movement.  Kochiyama who was the lifelong champion of civil rights causes in the black, Latino, Native American and Asian-American communities and advocated for many causes, including black liberation movement and reparations for Japanese-American internees. Her friendship with Malcolm X strengthened her activism.  Her presence in support of Malcolm X was forever memorized in a photograph taken in 1965 by Life magazine. 

 

REA TAJIRI is a filmmaker and visual artist whose ground-breaking, award-winning film, digital video and installation work, has been supported by numerous grants, fellowships and artistic residencies, has been exhibited widely in museums, on television and in international film festivals. Poetic, subtly layered and politically engaged, her work advances the exploration of forgotten histories, multi-generational memory, landscape and the Japanese American experience, leading to their inclusion in Asian American, Cinema Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies curricula in the US. Honors include: Ringleader, True/False Film Festival 2019; Juror, Blackstar Film Festival, Documentary Shorts, 2018; Juror, AnnArbor Film Festival, 2018, POV Selection Committee, 1996; Awards: IDA Distinguished Achievement Award, 1992; Best Experimental Video, Atlanta Film Festival, 1992; Jury Prize: New Genres, San Francisco International Film Festival, Grand Prix, Fukuoka Asian International Film Festival 1998.

 

PETER X FENG is Associate Professor of English and Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware.  He is the author of Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video (Duke, 2002), the editor of Screening Asian Americans (Rutgers, 2002), and a co-editor of Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora (Temple, 2009).  He has published essays on Asian American cinema in Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film, CineasteAmerasia JournalJump CutQuarterly Review of Film and VideoCamera Obscura, and Cinema Journal.

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