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Ethnic Studies is U.S. History
Saturday Morning Keynote
Saturday, February 25
Stan Yogi
Co-Author - Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
Since before it became a U.S. state in 1850, California has been home to a stunning array of ethnic groups who have resisted oppression to make theoretical rights a reality. Join us for an inspiring session exploring how diverse Californians during different eras and in various geographic areas and circumstances fought for racial justice, citizenship, equal protection, religious freedom, and other rights. Though some are well-known, many of their stories have long been marginalized or even silenced. Yet their victories benefited not only themselves and their communities, but had regional and national impact, and strengthened democracy for us all.
Stan Yogi
Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi are coauthors of "Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California," winner of a 2010 Gold Medal in the California Book Awards and named a ForeWord Book of the Year in History. In 2017, City Lights Books included the book in its “Pedagogy of Resistance,” bibliography, and in 2019, Heyday published a Tenth Anniversary edition. They were named San Francisco Library Laureates in 2010.
Yogi is the co-author, with Laura Atkins, of "Fred Korematsu Speaks Up," a biography for younger readers. He is the co-editor of two books, "Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley" and "Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography." His essays have appeared in the "San Francisco Chronicle," "Los Angeles Daily Journal" and academic journals and anthologies.
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