{"product_id":"afro-asia-9780822342588","title":"Afro Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfro-Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfro-Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” - Carol Huang, \u003ci\u003eJournal of African American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” - \u003cb\u003eManan Desai\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfro Asia\u003c\/i\u003e preserves and promotes critical thinking and activism in a global culture. Here, with incisive writings from diverse intellectuals, artists, and activists, Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen make a vital contribution towards liberation praxis that challenges the perceived permanence of manufactured distrust and division.”—\u003cb\u003eJoy James\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eShadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen have assembled a first-rate dossier of Afro-Asian work. It is equal parts lyrical and analytical. Flies like a butterfly; stings like a bee.”—\u003cb\u003eVijay Prashad\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eEverybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfro-Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfro-Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.” -- Carol Huang * Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003e“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’” -- Manan Desai * Against the Current *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Fred Ho and Bill Mullen 1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 1800–1950 \u003cbr\u003e Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict \/ Fred Ho 20\u003cbr\u003e Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847–1898 \/ Lisa Yun 30\u003cbr\u003e Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War \/ Daniel Widener 55\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From Bandung to the Black Panthers: National Liberation, the Third World, Mao, and Malcolm \u003cbr\u003e Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 \/ Mao Zedong 91\u003cbr\u003e Statement by Mao Zedong, 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 94\u003cbr\u003e Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution \/ Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch 97\u003cbr\u003e The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast \/ Fred Ho 155\u003cbr\u003e The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama \/ Diane C. Fujino 165\u003cbr\u003e Why Do We Lie About Telling the Truth? \/ Kalamu ya Salaam 198\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Afro\/Asian Arts: Catalysts, Collaborations, and the Coltrane Aesthetic \u003cbr\u003e The Yellow and the Black \/ Ishmael Reed 217\u003cbr\u003e Not Just a \"Special Issue\": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the \u003ci\u003eYardbird Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called by Back \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Cheryl Higashida 220\u003cbr\u003e Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds \/ Fred Ho 256\u003cbr\u003e Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture \/ Kim Hewitt 265\u003cbr\u003e The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River \/ royal hartigan with Fred Ho 285\u003cbr\u003e Is Kung Fu Racist? \/ Ron Wheeler with David Kaufman 291\u003cbr\u003e Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop \/ Thien-bao Thuc Phi 295\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Afro\/Asia Expressive Writing \u003cbr\u003e Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration \/ David Mura and Alexs Pate 321\u003cbr\u003e We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution \/ Kalamu ya Salaam 354\u003cbr\u003e El Chino \/ Lisa Yun 359\u003cbr\u003e Samchun in the Grocery Store \/ Ishle Park 363\u003cbr\u003e Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 \/ Maya Almachar Santos 365\u003cbr\u003e Chyna and Me \/ JoYin C Shih 369\u003cbr\u003e All That \/ Everett Hoagland 376\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 379\u003cbr\u003e Index 383","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51138191098199,"sku":"9780822342588","price":115.32,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342588.jpg?v=1751918374","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afro-asia-9780822342588","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}