A workshop with Robeson Taj Frazier Sponso red by the department of African and African-American Studies and East Asia n Studies Program.
Professor Frazier\, associate professor of communi cation in the School of Communication at USC\, will discuss his 2014 book\, "The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination."
< p>About his book:During the Cold War\, several prominent African Ame rican radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois\, journalist William Worthy\, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin\, and fre edom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There\ , they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese com munism and to redefine the relationship between Asian struggles against imp erialism and black American movements against social\, racial\, and economi c injustice. In The East Is Black\, Taj Frazier examines the ways in which these figures and the Chinese government embraced the idea of shared strugg le against U.S. policies at home and abroad. He analyzes their diverse cult ural output (newsletters\, print journalism\, radio broadcasts\, political cartoons\, lectures\, and documentaries) to document how they imagined comm unist China’s role within a broader vision of a worldwide anticapitalist co alition against racism and imperialism.
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