An icon of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the sixties and seventies. His life story exposes the personal side of political activism as it illuminates the history of ethnic nationalism and radical internationalism in America. Samurai among Panthers weaves together two narratives: Aoki's dramatic first-person chronicle and an interpretive history by Diane C. Fujino. The result of these parallel voices and analysis is a complex portrait of an extraordinary activist that expands and deepens our understanding of the history he lived.