With a Foreword by way of Vijay Prashad and an Afterword via Gary Okihiro
How may well we comprehend yellowface performances by way of African americans in Nineteen Thirties swing diversifications of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's help of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop through Asian American formative years culture?
AfroAsian Encounters is the 1st anthology to examine the mutual effect of and relationships among participants of the African and Asian diasporas. whereas those teams have frequently been considered occupying incommensurate, if now not opposing, cultural and political positions, students from historical past, literature, media, and the visible arts right here hint their interconnections and interactions, in addition to the tensions among the 2 teams that usually come up. AfroAsian Encounters probes past pop culture to track the historic lineage of those coalitions from the overdue 19th century to the present.
A foreword by way of Vijay Prashad units the amount within the context of the Bandung convention part a century in the past, and an afterword by way of Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a “Black Pacific.” From the historical past of eastern jazz composers to the present acclaim for black/Asian “buddy movies” like Rush Hour, AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into reviews of race and ethnicity and a vital examine the moving that means of race within the twenty-first century.
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