Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity

by Gerald Horne

The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II

In November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.-- an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147984859X
• ISBN13: 9781479848591
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"