Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act?
Documentary | 1991 | 20 mins | VHS
Director/Producer
Russell Leong
Ethnicity
Subjects
Personal Stories, Racism, Women, Child/Spousal/Sexual Abuse, Japanese American/Canadian Internment
Grade Levels
High School and up
This video profiles Janice Mirikitani, the award-winning Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) poet, writer, activist, choreographer and the executive director of programs at the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. Beginning with a remembrance of her grandmother, Mirikitani reflects on legacies of struggle, power and self-determination.
Recognition
National Asian Pacific American Asiancine Vision Video Festival, New York City
Manhattan Cable TV
Additional Resources
For more about Janice Mirikitani »
Janice Mirikitani and Glide Memorial »
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