Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847-1898 -- Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War -- 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 -- 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 -- Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution -- The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast -- The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama -- Why Do We Lie about Telling the Truth? -- PART III afro/asian arts: catalysts, collaborations, and the coltrane aesthetic -- The Yellow and the Black -- Not Just a ''Special Issue'': Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back -- Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds -- Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture -- The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River -- Is Kung Fu Racist? -- Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop -- PART IV afro/asia expressive writing -- Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration -- We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution -- El Chino -- Samchun in the Grocery Store -- Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 -- Chyna and Me -- All That -- Contributors -- Index