The East Is Black : Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination Paperback / softback
by Robeson Taj Frazier
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages, 33 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:26/12/2014
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- ISBN:9780822357865
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages, 33 illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:26/12/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822357865