The East Is Black - 9780822357865

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. InThe 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.

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo del Libro in lingua: The East Is Black
• Sottotitolo: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination
• Lingua: English
• Autore:  Frazier Robeson Taj
• Editore: Duke Univ Pr
• Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
• Data di Pubblicazione: 26 Dicembre '14
• Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
• Argomenti :  African American political activists African Americans Relations with Chinese Civil rights movements History 20th century
• Pagine: 314
• EAN-13: 9780822357865