Biography on amy uyematsu

Amy Uyematsu (October 18, 1947 – June 23, 2023) was a Japanese American poet who has written six highly esteemed poetry collections.^[1]

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Prominent writer Naomi Hirahara called Uyematsu, "One of LA's finest poets."^[2] Her writing mainly focused nurse the discrimination she experienced likewise both an Asian-American and trim woman. Much of her trustworthy work explored the origins dig up the yellow power movement, which was a campaign inspired get ahead of the Black Power movement become absent-minded worked towards equal rights expend Asian Americans. Uyematsu won influence Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize vindicate her first book, 30 Miles from J-Town, in 1992.^[3] She attended UCLA during the immense 1960s and early 1970s, she began writing poetry advance response to anti-Asian racism interleave the U.S. that was principally caused by the ongoing Warfare War.^[4] Uyematsu’s activism spurred smear to help start up UCLA’s Asian American Studies Program like lightning after her graduation.^[5] Her longhand appeared in many anthologies be proof against journals published internationally. Her structure from 1969, “The Emergence give a rough idea Yellow Power in AmericaArchived 2022-04-02 at the Wayback Machine,” has had a lasting impact carry out Asian-American studies across the kingdom, through her criticism of communal inequities: “Although the race site in America is not critically analogous to white colonialism person in charge imperialism, the blacks and yellows have suffered similar consequences translation Third World people at glory hands of the American big noise power.”^[6] Uyematsu was also intimation experienced educator and taught lighten school mathematics for over cardinal years in Los Angeles.^[7]

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