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"Third Worlds Within examines the production of radical political community across racial and ethnic differences in Southern California and globally. Drawing from an expansive historical archive, the book traces an extensive study of interethnic and transnational radicalisms that impact the US and animate what has been called the Third World, the tricontinental, and the global South. Daniel Widener analyzes key moments of cultural and political organizing to explore the possibilities inherent in interethnic and internationalist collaboration. Chapters look at Black and Japanese American and Black and Mexican American solidarities in Los Angeles and at cultural efforts to produce such solidarities more widely. Throughout the book, Widener sustains a careful consideration of the effects of US racial capitalism and imperialism upon communities of color, and he pays special attention to the multiracial struggle of bringing about social transformation"--

The visual arts played a critical role in the cultural awakening that began with the Second World War and flourished in the aftermath of the Watts riots. In searching for new means of expression rooted in and relevant to the communities from which they came, black artists based in Los Angeles pushed the parameters of consciously black art by offering a fundamental reevaluation of the meaning art could have in black lives. Much like avant-garde jazz musicians, visual artists developed a unique mixed-media language that combined themes of political insurgency, communitarian engagement, and familiar cultural tropes of migration, musical, spirituality, and family. Augmented by a cross-generic engagement with sound and text, this bricolage avoided the formal limits of realist representation while producing a culturally specific aesthetics that artists could take as emblematic of the black liberation movement's broader critique of the limits of American society for what Duke Ellington had called "the sun-tanned tenth of the nation."

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Arts on 18 March 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2020.1725586

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