Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction / Fred Ho and Bill Mullen  1

Part I. The African and Asian Diasporas in the West: 18001950  

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, 18471898 / 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

Bill V. Mullen

Fred Ho

Lisa Li Shen Yun

Daniel Widener

Mao Zedong

Robin D. G. Kelley

Elizabeth Esch

Diane C Fujino

Ishmael Reed

Cheryl Higashida

Kim Hewitt

Royal Hartigan

Ron Wheeler

David Kaufman

Thien-bao Phi

David Mura

Alexs Pate

Kalamu ya Salaam

Ishle Yi Park

Maya Santos

Joyin Shih

Everett Hoagland

“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.”—Carol Huang, Journal of African American History

“The essays on the arts, including ‘crossover’ pieces (e.g., African-Americans and the martial arts, Asian-Americans and hip hop), are particularly accessible, and Ishmael Reed’s ‘rare original account of the origins of modern Asian American literary production’ . . . is of significant historical value. . . . Ho and Mullen’s collection offers a fresh perspective well worth the effort.”—Publishers Weekly

“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’”—Manan Desai, Against the Current

“Afro-Asia is a long overdue tribute to the long history of cross-ethnic intellectual connections, as well as a celebration of artistic collaborations, between African Americans and Asian Americans. . . . Fred Ho and Bill Mullen have produced a book that is groundbreaking in its intellectual rigor, as well as aesthetically pleasing. . . . Afro-Asia is highly recommended to anyone interested in how radical ideas and concepts travel through and across cultural boundaries and eventually bloom with new brilliance.”—Carol Huang, Journal of African American History

“The essays on the arts, including ‘crossover’ pieces (e.g., African-Americans and the martial arts, Asian-Americans and hip hop), are particularly accessible, and Ishmael Reed’s ‘rare original account of the origins of modern Asian American literary production’ . . . is of significant historical value. . . . Ho and Mullen’s collection offers a fresh perspective well worth the effort.”—Publishers Weekly

“At a moment when the national media are abuzz with predictions of a new era of post-racial politics, Fred Ho and Bill Mullen’s anthology on the intersections of African and Asian Americans remind us of the complex ways that race has shaped and continues to shape our lives in this country. Afro Asia compiles a diverse set of essays that illuminate a repressed tradition, spanning the early 19th century onwards, of ‘creative political and cultural resistance grounded in Afro-Asian collaboration and connectivity.’”—Manan Desai, Against the Current

“Afro Asia preserves and promotes critical thinking and activism in a global culture. Here, with incisive writings from diverse intellectuals, artists, and activists, Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen make a vital contribution towards liberation praxis that challenges the perceived permanence of manufactured distrust and division.”—Joy James, author of Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics

“Fred Ho and Bill V. Mullen have assembled a first-rate dossier of Afro-Asian work. It is equal parts lyrical and analytical. Flies like a butterfly; stings like a bee.”—Vijay Prashad, author of Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

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