Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ho, Fred Wei-han.
• Mullen, Bill, 1959-

Description

x, 403 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• United States > Race relations
• African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century
• African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
• African Americans > Relations with Asian Americans
• Asian Americans > Politics and government > 20th century
• Asian Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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? / Kauimu ya Salaam -- Pt. 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-I965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back / Cheryl Higashida -- Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture / Kim Hewitt.

ISBN

• 9780822342588 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822342588 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822342816 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822342812 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044906

OCLC

• ocn179838735
• 179838735
• SCSB-5422872

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries