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Paperback Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity Book

ISBN: 0807050113

ISBN13: 9780807050118

Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity

Selected as One of the Village Voice 's Favorite 25 Books of 2001 In this landmark work, historian Vijay Prashad refuses to engage the typical racial discussion that matches people of color against each other while institutionalizing the primacy of the white majority. Instead he examines more than five centuries of remarkable historical evidence of cultural and political interaction between Blacks and Asians around the world, in which they have exchanged cultural and religious symbols, appropriated personas and lifestyles, and worked together to achieve political change.

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Rated 5 stars
intellectually stimulating

A good detailed overview of poly-culturalism in today's world. A hard read but good information if you stick with it.

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Rated 4 stars
interesting but frustrating

This is not a straightforward book by any means. Vijay Prashad has written a book that is by turns, illuminating, fascinating and maddening. In many ways, reading this book is like one of those lively and entertaining conversations you have in British pubs with the local sagacious man: Prashad describes some tantalizing connections between Black and Asian liberation struggles and just as you think, "Aha, here comes the good...

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Rated 5 stars
Optimism of the intellect!

Strong, strong stuff--as thought-provoking and energizing as KARMA OF BROWN FOLK, and much more thoughtfully argued. But the guy needs to slow down and write a book as carefully and lovingly researched as his first (UNTOUCHABLE FREEDOM)!

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Rated 5 stars
a fabulous book

vijay prashad has written another stunner of a book - sweeping in its subject matter, fresh in its analysis, and fun to read. a must for anyone interested in the thorny questions of race in the 21st century.

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