The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination

by Robeson Taj Frazier

Book Overview

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals--including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams--traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian struggles against imperialism and black American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822357860
• ISBN13: 9780822357865
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"