| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
013500 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
| Event |
Originally produced by Ben Wang in 2009. |
| Summary |
AOKI chronicles the life of Richard Aoki (1938-2009), a third-generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party. Filmed over the last five years of Richard's life, this documentary features extensive footage with Richard and exclusive interviews with his comrades, friends, and former students. Viewers will learn about Richard's childhood in a WWII Japanese American concentration camp, growing up in West Oakland, and serving eight years in the U.S. military. The film explores previously unknown facts about the formation of the Black Panther Party such as how Richard became intimately involved in its founding and contributed the first two firearms to the Party. AOKI highlights how Richard's leadership also made a significant impact on individuals and groups in the contemporary Asian American Movement. Richard's contributions to the groundbreaking organization Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) and its involvement in the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) student strike led to the formation of ethnic studies at U.C. Berkeley. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Aoki, Richard, 1938-2009.
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Asian American Political Alliance (Berkeley, Calif.) -- History.
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Black Panther Party -- History.
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Asian American Political Alliance (Berkeley, Calif.).
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Black Panther Party.
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Japanese Americans -- Biography.
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Japanese Americans.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Wang, Ben (Filmmaker) film director.
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Ben Wang (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
2283957 Kanopy |
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