Afro Asia : revolutionary political and cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans / edited by Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ho, Fred Wei-han.

Mullen, Bill, 1959-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Asian Americans.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Asian Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Asian Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

Asian Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.

Contents:

PART I The African and Asian diasporas in the west: 1800-1950

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict / Fred Ho

Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847-1898 / Lisa Yun

Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War / Daniel Widener

PART II From Bandung to the Black Panthers: national liberation, the third world, Mao, and Malcolm

Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 / Mao Zedong

Statement by Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 / Mao Zedong

Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution / Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch

The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast / Fred Ho

The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama / Diane C. Fujino

Why Do We Lie about Telling the Truth? Kalamu ya Salaam

PART III Afro/Asian arts: catalysts, collaborations, and the Coltrane aesthetic

The Yellow and the Black / Ishmael Reed

Not Just a "Special Issue": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back / Cheryl Higashida

Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds / Fred Ho

Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture / Kim Hewitt

The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River / Royal Hartigan with Fred Ho

Is Kung Fu Racist? / Ron Wheeler with David Kaufman

Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop / Thien-bao Thuc Phi

PART IV Afro/Asia expressive writing

Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration / David Mura and Alexs Pate

We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution / Kalamu ya Salaam

El Chino / Lisa Yun

Samchun in the Grocery Store / Ishle Park

Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 / Maya Almachar Santos

Chyna and Me / JoYin C Shih

All That / Everett Hoagland.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613062116

9781283062114

1283062119

9780822381174

0822381176

OCLC:

271244087