| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: March of the volunteers -- |
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Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China: Ruminations on eastern passage ; A passport ain't worth a cent -- |
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Part II. The 1960s: The East is red and Black: Soul brothers and soul sisters of the East ; Maoism and the sinification of Black political struggle -- |
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Coda: the 1970s: Rapprochement and the decline of China's world revolution -- Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu |
| Summary |
During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams-traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian struggles against imperialism and black American movements against social, racial, and economic injustice. In The East Is Black, Taj Frazier examines the ways in which these figures and the Chinese go |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-302) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO platform, viewed July 20, 2023) |
| SUBJECT |
Civil rights movement -- History -- 20th century
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Civil rights movement. fast (OCoLC)fst01778933 |
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African American political activists.
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African Americans -- Relations with Chinese.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African American political activists.
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African Americans -- Relations with Chinese.
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Politics and government.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024173
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| Subject |
China.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822376095 |
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0822376091 |
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