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Mar 13, 2019 · Launching his career in electoral politics in the post-Civil Rights era, Hayakawa lived out the same paradox. Being a Japanese American lawmaker who would refuse to represent the majority of the Japanese, Asian, or any other minority communities became one of his major political assets.
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Dec 1, 2012 · In December 1968 S. I. Hayakawa, the interim president of San Francisco State College, gained fame when he pulled the wires from the loudspeakers on a protester's truck during a student strike. Television cameras caught the moment on tape.
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The trajectory of Hayakawa’s political career reflected a drastic reconfiguration of ideas about race as an outcome of the short, or classical, Civil Rights Movement.
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Although better remembered today as a reactionary conservative who opposed the Japanese American Redress Movement and bilingual education, he had been known as an anti-racist liberal who was...
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This week establishes a social and political context of the post-War but pre-1965 era and the ideological tensions that emerge following the civil rights victories of the mid-1960s. Between World War II and the late 1960s, black Americans made remarkable advances educationally, economically and politically.
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1 Sitkoff, Harvard, A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), 335 Google Scholar; Norrell, Robert J., Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), x Google Scholar; Korstad, Robert and Lichtenstein, Nelson ...
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From their point of view, Reconstruction was a tragic period of American history in which vengeful White Northern radicals took over the South. In order to punish the White Southerners they had just defeated in the Civil War, these Radical Republicans gave ignorant freedmen the right to vote.
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Why did Hayakawa become a political leader in the post-Civil Rights era?
Launching his career in electoral politics in the post-Civil Rights era, Hayakawa lived out the same paradox. Being a Japanese American lawmaker who would refuse to represent the majority of the Japanese, Asian, or any other minority communities became one of his major political assets.

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How did Hayakawa change American racial politics?
Hayakawa’s honeymoon with the African American community and other communities of color up to the mid-1960s, as well as his seemingly abrupt break with them, mirrored the dramatic shift in the field of American racial politics. 1. S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949).

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Why was Hayakawa opposed to Black Studies?
Hayakawa was not opposed to the idea of Black studies or ethnic studies as fields of study. Through his experience with the African American community in Chicago, he was well aware of the need to study and teach African American history and culture.

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Why did Hayakawa become a columnist?
Hayakawa’s fame as a best-selling author in 1941 quickly lead to a unique opportunity in November 1942; the Chicago Defender hired him as the first non-Black regular columnist in the paper’s history. By then the war in the Pacific had started and the internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast was under way.

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Was Hayakawa's racial liberalism obsolete?
It also meant, however, that the kind of racial liberalism embraced by Hayakawa—a color-blind, anti-essentialist, and assimilationist view on race—was also now obsolete as an organizing principle for anti-racists of different generations and diverse political persuasions.

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How did Hayakawa use his identity?
Hayakawa’s strategic usage of his identity did not start with his engagement with electoral politics in the 1970s, or during the student strike of 1968–1969. It had started much earlier in the 1940s when he established himself as a public intellectual who won the trust of the African American community in Chicago.

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