Afro Asia

by Ho, Fred; Mullen, Bill V.

• ISBN13: 9780822342816
• ISBN10: 0822342812
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars,Afro Asiais a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americas. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against oppression.Afro Asiaopens with analyses of historical connections between people of African and of Asian descent. W. E. B. Du Bois's neglected work on Afro-Asian antiquity, "Asia in Africa," appears along with essays including a historical account of nineteenth-century Chinese labourers who fought against slavery and colonialism in Cuba. 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 states 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 1800-1950
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict	p. 20
Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847-1898	p. 30
Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War	p. 55
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	p. 91
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	p. 94
Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution	p. 97
The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast	p. 155
The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama	p. 165
Why Do We Lie about Telling the Truth?	p. 198
Afro/Asian Arts: Catalysts, Collaborations, and the Coltrane Aesthetic
The Yellow and the Black	p. 217
Not Just a "Special Issue": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back	p. 220
Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds	p. 256
Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture	p. 265
The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River	p. 285
Is Kung Fu Racist?	p. 291
Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop	p. 295
Afro/Asia Expressive Writing
Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration	p. 321
We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution	p. 354
El Chino	p. 359
Samchun in the Grocery Store	p. 363
Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998	p. 365
Chyna and Me	p. 369
All That	p. 376
Contributors	p. 379
Index	p. 383
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