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Book

Afro Asia : revolutionary political and cultural connections between African Americans and Asian Americans

Call Number

  • 305.895 A2587 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Physical Description

x, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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