
During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian ...
Paperback: 328 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press Books (December 26, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780822357865
ISBN-13: 978-0822357865
ASIN: 0822357860
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
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Martin Luther King Jr. once said "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Frazier shows us that where there is a history of struggle around the world there is also a history of solidarity and a sharing of revolutionary ideas. ...
gainst imperialism and black American movements against social, racial, and economic injustice. In The East Is Black, Taj Frazier examines the ways in which these figures and the Chinese government embraced the idea of shared struggle against U.S. policies at home and abroad. He analyzes their diverse cultural output (newsletters, print journalism, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, lectures, and documentaries) to document how they imagined communist China’s role within a broader vision of a worldwide anticapitalist coalition against racism and imperialism.