Title Everybody was Kung Fu fighting : Afro-Asian connections and the myth of cultural purity / Vijay Prashad

Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) Contents Illustrations -- The Strange Career of Xenophobia -- The American Ideology -- Coolie Purana -- The Merchant's Always a Stranger -- Kung Fusion -- index Summary "In 1992 the U.S. media was treated to "conflict" between blacks and Asians during the Los Angeles uprising. The event crystallized white-supremacist stereotypes of blacks as the "problem" minority and Asians as the "model."" "In this work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical evidence of cultural and political interaction between blacks and Asians around the world, in which they have exchanged cultural and religious symbols, appropriated personas and lifestyles, and worked together to achieve political change From the Shivites of Jamaica, who introduced Ganja and dreadlocks to the Afro-Jamaicans; to Ho Chi Minh the Garveyite; to Japanese-American Richard Aoki, a charter member of the Black Panthers, African- and Asian-derived movements and cultures, like all others, have been porous rather than discrete."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans. African Americans -- Social conditions. African Americans -- Race identity. Asian Americans -- Social conditions Asian Americans -- Race identity Racism -- United States Race -- Social aspects -- United States SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. African Americans -- Race identity African Americans -- Relations with Asian Americans African Americans -- Social conditions Asian Americans -- Race identity Asian Americans -- Social conditions Ethnic relations Race relations Race -- Social aspects Racism Aufsatzsammlung Ethnische Beziehungen Rassenfrage Afro-amerikaner -- sociala förhållanden. Afro-amerikaner -- etnicitet. Asiater -- sociala förhållanden -- Förenta staterna. Asiater -- etnicitet -- Förenta staterna. Rasism -- Förenta staterna. Etniska relationer -- Förenta staterna. SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 United States -- Ethnic relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043 Subject United States Schwärze USA Asiaten. United States -- Race relations. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780807050101 0807050105

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