W.E.B. Du Bois's Afro-Asian fantasia -- The limits of being outside : Richard Wright's anticolonial turn -- Transnational correspondence : Robert F. Williams, Detroit, and the Bandung era -- "Philosophy must be proletarian" : the dialectical humanism of Grace Lee and James Boggs -- Making monkey signify : Fred Ho's revolutionary vision quest
Summary
As early as 1914, in his pivotal essay "The World Problem of the Color Line," W. E. B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro-Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In Afro-Orientalism, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary thought and writing developed by African American and Asian American artists and intellectuals in response to Du Bois's challenge. Afro-Orientalism unfolds here as a distinctive strand of cultural and political work that contests the longstanding, dominant discourse about race and nation first fully named in Edward Said's Orientalism. Mullen
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-227) and index
