The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Ta

Description: The East Is Black by Robeson Taj Frazier 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 Chinas role within a broader vision of a worldwide anticapitalist coalition against racism and imperialism. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Robeson Taj Frazier is Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. Table of Contents Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: March of the Volunteers 1 Part I. The 1950s: Losing China, Winning China 22 1. Ruminations on Eastern Passage 37 2. A Passport Aint Worth a Cent 72 Part II. The 1960s: The East Is Red and Black 108 3. Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters of the East 117 4. Maoism and the Sinification of Black Political Struggle 159 Coda. The 1970s: Rapprochement and the Decline of Chinas World Revolution 193 Postscript: Weaving through San Huan Lu 213 Glossary 221 Notes 225 Bibliography 277 Index 303 Review "The East Is Black deepens studies on transnational political activism and knowledge travels. Well organized and accessible, this book will work well in upper-division undergraduate and graduate seminars on African American studies, media studies, and U.S. Cold War history." -- Cindy I-Fen Cheng * Journal of American History *"As it stands, Robeson Taj Frazier has written a monumentally successful monograph that is close to flawless in assessing other horizons and limits of Cold War China for Black radicals. Frazier has helped to raise the bar for future scholars assessing what C. L.R. James once called the "rise and fall" of world revolution." -- Bill V. Mullen * Black Scholar *"The East is Black is a brilliant work that explores how the Peoples Republic of China (prc) inspired the political imaginations of African American radicals during the Cold War.... Overall, The East is Black is a delight to read. Frazier writes in a fluid and compelling manner... [the book] should attract a broad readership among academics and students who are interested in race and radicalism in the United States and Asia." -- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Fraziers The East is Black is a deeply nuanced and well-researched book that enriches the literature on twentieth century black internationalism.... Through careful and in-depth analysis, Frazier has written an important study, which will enhance undergraduate and graduate course syllabi on a range of topics including Race and Ethnicity, Transnationalism, and the modern African Diaspora." -- Keisha N. Blain * American Studies *"The East is Black is a compelling account of transnational interaction between American black political radicals and China from the founding of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 until the 1970s. Robeson Taj Fraziers book is a valuable addition to an exploding historiography on transnational contacts between individuals and groups separated by territorial borders but united by commonalities beyond the nation-state." -- Pete Millwood * History *"It is abundantly clear that Fraziers impressive, granular attention to detail is, in part, what opens up the admirably novel analytical spaces—and affective registers—his study occupies. The East Is Black calmly forgoes the nostalgia for the romance of anti-colonial struggle that pervades much scholarship on Afro-Asian solidarity from the last fifteen years. Instead, Frazier supplements this worthwhile tendency with a commitment to lingering with the fragments, the frustrations, of a struggle that wasnt to be—a project he enacts expertly, in a manner that bears repeating." -- Ajay Kumar Batra * Amerasia Journal *"The East is Black helps expand the geographic and cultural boundaries of scholarly understandings of the black radical imagination. Fraziers detailed analysis of the dynamic terrain of Third Worldism, anti-imperialism, and black radicalism insightfully illustrates how African Americans engaged with a fluid global color line in pursuit of a transnational solidarity against white racial capitalism. The study is well worth reading for scholars of African American politics and intellectual thought, but should be equally rewarding for students of modern global history and the Cold War." -- Joseph Parrott * H-Afro-Am, H-Net Reviews * Review Quote " The East is Black is one of the most brilliant examinations of the possibilities and limits of the global radical imaginary to appear in the last quarter century. In charting the encounters of six Black intellectuals/activists with Maos China, Frazier offers a sophisticated, sobering view of transnational solidarity. He skillfully peels back the romantic exterior of revolution, revealing a complex set of misunderstandings, misrepresentations, political dissembling alongside powerful moments of recognition and revelation. If, as Stuart Hall famously wrote, hegemony is hard work, then Frazier demonstrates that global counter-hegemony is even harder." Details ISBN0822357682 Author Robeson Taj Frazier Year 2014 ISBN-10 0822357682 ISBN-13 9780822357681 Media Book Publication Date 2014-12-26 Pages 328 Publisher Duke University Press Short Title EAST IS BLACK Language English Format Hardcover Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Illustrations 33 illustrations Birth 1981 UK Release Date 2014-12-26 AU Release Date 2014-12-26 NZ Release Date 2014-12-26 US Release Date 2014-12-26 Alternative 9780822357865 DEWEY 001.09045 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131533485;

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