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

Published Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2008 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 403 pages) : illustrations 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 the black revolution / Robin D.G. Kelley ans Betsy Esch -- The inspiration of Mao and the Chinese revolution on the black liberation movement and 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 Summary With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against oppression. Afro Asia opens with analyses of historical connections between people of African and of Asian descent. An account of nineteenth-century Chinese laborers who fought against slavery and colonialism in Cuba appears alongside an exploration of African Americans' reactions to and experiences of the Korean "conflict." Contributors examine the fertile period of Afro-Asian exchange that began around the time of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first meeting of leaders from Asian and African nations in the postcolonial era. One assesses the relationship of two important 1960s Asian American activists to Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. Mao Ze Dong's 1963 and 1968 statements in support of black liberation are juxtaposed with an overview of the influence of Maoism on African American leftists. Turning to the arts, Ishmael Reed provides a brief account of how he met and helped several Asian American writers. A Vietnamese American spoken-word artist describes the impact of black hip-hop culture on working-class urban Asian American youth. Fred Ho interviews Bill Cole, an African American jazz musician who plays Asian double-reed instruments. This pioneering collection closes with an array of creative writing, including poetry, memoir, and a dialogue about identity and friendship that two writers, one Japanese American and the other African American, have performed around the United States. Contributors: Betsy Esch, Diane C. Fujino, royal hartigan, Kim Hewitt, Cheryl Higashida, Fred Ho, Everett Hoagland, Robin D.G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, David Mura, Ishle Park, Alexs Pate, Thien-bao Thuc Phi, Ishmael Reed, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Maya Almachar Santos, JoYin C. Shih, Ron Wheeler, Daniel Widener, Lisa Yun -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed March 25, 2021) digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans. African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans -- Literary collections African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century Asian Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Asian Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans Asian Americans -- Intellectual life Asian Americans -- Politics and government Race relations SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form Literary collections Form Electronic book Author Ho, Fred Wei-han, editor. Mullen, Bill, 1959- editor. LC no. 2007044906 ISBN 9780822381174 0822381176 9781283062114 1283062119 9786613062116 6613062111

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