{"product_id":"the-east-is-black-9780822357865","title":"The East Is Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe East Is Black\u003c\/i\u003e deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history.\" -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the \"rise and fall\" of world revolution.\" -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe East is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant work that explores how the People’s Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, \u003ci\u003eThe East is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia.\" -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *\u003cbr\u003e\"Frazier’s \u003ci\u003eThe East is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora.\" -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe East is Black\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Frazier’s book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state.\" -- Pete Millwood * History *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is abundantly clear that Frazier’s impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. \u003ci\u003eThe East Is Black\u003c\/i\u003e calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasn’t to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating.\" -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe East is Black\u003c\/i\u003e helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Frazier’s detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War.\" -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbbreviations        ix   Acknowledgments        xi   Introduction: March of the Volunteers        1   Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China        22   1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage        37   2. A Passport Ain't Worth a Cent        72   Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black        108   3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East        117   4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle        159   Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of China's World Revolution        193   Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu        213   Glossary        221   Notes        225   Bibliography        277   Index        303","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406084481367,"sku":"9780822357865","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822357865.jpg?v=1730494472","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-east-is-black-9780822357865","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}