CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I the african and asian diasporas in the west: 1800–1950 18
6. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict 20
7. Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847–1898 30
8. Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War 55
9. PART II from bandung to the black panthers: national liberation, the third world, mao, and malcolm
10. Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 91
11. Statement by Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 94
12. Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution 97
13. The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast 155
14. The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama 155
15. Why Do We Lie about Telling the Truth? 198
16. PART III afro/asian arts: catalysts, collaborations, and the coltrane aesthetic
17. The Yellow and the Black 217
18. Not Just a ‘‘Special Issue’’: Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back 220
19. Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds 256
20. Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture 265
21. The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River 285
22. Is Kung Fu Racist? 291
23. Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop 295
24. PART IV afro/asia expressive writing
25. Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American–Asian American Collaboration 321
26. We Don’t Stand a Chinaman’s Chance Unless We Create a Revolution 354
27. El Chino 359
28. Samchun in the Grocery Store 363
29. Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 365
30. Chyna and Me 369
31. All That 376
32. Contributors 379
33. Index 383