Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans

Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Fred Ho and Bill Mullen 1 Part I. The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 1800-1950 Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict / Fred Ho 20 Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847-1898 / Lisa Yun 30 Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War / Daniel Widener 55 Part II. From Bandung to the Black Panthers: National Liberation, the Third World, Mao, and Malcolm Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 / Mao Zedong 91 Statement by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 / Mao Zedong 94 Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution / Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch 97 The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast / Fred Ho 155 The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama / Diane C. Fujino 165 Why Do We Lie About Telling the Truth? / Kalamu ya Salaam 198 Part III. Afro/Asian Arts: Catalysts, Collaborations, and the Coltrane Aesthetic The Yellow and the Black / Ishmael Reed 217 Not Just a "Special Issue": Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called by Back / Cheryl Higashida 220 Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds / Fred Ho 256 Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture / Kim Hewitt 265 The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River / royal hartigan with Fred Ho 285 Is Kung Fu Racist? / Ron Wheeler with David Kaufman 291 Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop / Thien-bao Thuc Phi 295 Part IV. Afro/Asia Expressive Writing Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration / David Mura and Alexs Pate 321 We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution / Kalamu ya Salaam 354 El Chino / Lisa Yun 359 Samchun in the Grocery Store / Ishle Park 363 Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 / Maya Almachar Santos 365 Chyna and Me / JoYin C Shih 369 All That / Everett Hoagland 376 Contributors 379 Index 383