Who is Mitsuye Yamada from the collection, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color?

Mitsuye Yamada contributes the essay, "Invisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman," in which she reveals the misconceptions she encounters being an Asian feminist. She records the anger of Americans who didn't expect or understand the anger of Asians who hold on to resentment for the years they were held in American concentration camps, or for being generalized about as passive instead of met and understood on their own terms as individuals, and thereby granted the freedom to be who they are. "Asian Pacific American Women and Feminism" talks about Americans' expectations of Asian women and the resulting struggle for them to become teachers of any idea that doesn't conform to that image.