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The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
Duke University Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5768-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5 | Paper: 978-0-8223-5786-5 Library of Congress Classification E185.615.F728 2015
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 struggles against 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. See other books on: 1949-1976 | African American political activists | African Americans | China | Radical Imagination See other titles from Duke University Press |
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The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
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Duke University Press, 2015
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5768-1
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5
Paper: 978-0-8223-5786-5
Cloth: 978-0-8223-5768-1
eISBN: 978-0-8223-7609-5
Paper: 978-0-8223-5786-5
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 struggles against 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.
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