Featured image: Yuri Kochiyama, cover to her book Passing it On.
Articles
Advancing Justice | AAJC: Black and Asian Solidarity in American History: The Power of Unity Exemplified by 5 Major Events.
Resources on the Asian American Movement of 1968.
On the Asian American Political Alliance, which allied itself with the Black Power Movement and anticolonial freedom struggles.
Interview with Vivek Bald, author of “Bengali Harlem.”
Black Desi Secret History: The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity.
Keisha N. Blain: The Struggle to End Racism is Global.
Grace Lee Boggs: see articles about her by historians Thomas Sugrue; Ashley Farmer; Garrett Felber; and her biographer, Stephen M. Ward. See also the Grace Lee Boggs Archive for her writings.
Keisha A. Brown: Blackness in Modern China: W.E.B. Du Bois and Chinese Representations of Blackness.
W.E.B. Du Bois with Mao Zedong, 1959.
Lynn Burnett:
- Gandhi’s Connections with Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Marcus Garvey.
- Black Americans Make Contact with Gandhi.
Anirvan Chatterjee: Black and Desi: A Shared History.
Eldridge Cleaver: Notes on Korea. (See more primary sources on Cleaver and Korea here.)
Arica L. Coleman: What Martin Luther King Overlooked About Gandhi.
W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois: video footage of their 1959 trip to Peking.
Garrett Felber: Remembering Muhammad Ali: Asiatic Black Man.
Dianne Fujino: The Indivisibility of Freedom: The Nisei Progressives, Deep Solidarities, and Cold War Alternatives.
David Garrow: When Martin Luther King Came Out Against Vietnam.
Historic Shanghai: Roar, China! Langston Hughes in Shanghai.
Article on Fred Ho, a politically revolutionary jazz musician and proponent of Black/Brown solidarity.
Jeanelle Hope: Black, Yellow, and Shades of Purple: Radical Afro-Asian Collective Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area From the Perspectives of Women in the Struggle, 1966-1972. (Note: thesis.)
Robin D. G. Kelley and Betsy Esch: Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution.
Martin Luther King:
- “Buddhists and Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement”: Joint statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh, International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam.
- Letter from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. nominating Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967.
- Beyond Vietnam. Audio.
Yuri Kochiyama: see her biographer Diane Fujino’s Grassroots Leadership and Afro-Asian Solidarities: Yuri Kochiyama’s Humanizing Radicalism. See also Code Switch’s Not Just A ‘Black Thing’: An Asian-American’s Bond With Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama, Activist And Former World War II Internee, Dies At 93. See her bio at the Densho Encyclopedia.
On the Asian American group I Wor Kuen, which modeled itself on the Black Panthers and Young Lords.
Bianca Mabute-Louie: Black & Asian Solidarity Series. (Collection of political education zines.)
Daryl J. Maeda: Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen: Constructing Asian American Identity through Performing Blackness, 1969–1972.
Simmy Makhijani: United States of Dissent: Converging Political Imaginaries of the Ghadarites and Black Panthers.
Ho Chi Minh (1924): On Lynching And The Ku Klux Klan.
Morehouse Afro-Asian Archives.
Taiyo Na: Yuri, Tupac, and a Harlem House.
Tamara Nopper: The Illusion of Afro-Asian Solidarity?: Situating the 1955 Bandung Conference.
NPR: The History Of Solidarity Between Asian And Black Americans.
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar: Yellow Power: the Formation of Asian-American Nationalism in the Age of Black Power, 1966-1975.
Yuichiro Onishi: Gerald Horne’s Japan.
Yuichiro Onishi, interviewed by Keisha Blain: Transpacific Antiracism.
Shailaja Paik:Building Bridges: Articulating Dalit and African-American Women’s Solidarity.
Patrick Parr:
- Japan still has much to learn from Martin Luther King’s nonviolent struggle.
- How Coretta Scott King brought her husband’s message to Japan.
- MLK, Hiroshima, and the Fear of Nuclear Destruction.
- MLK’s Japanese Friend, Makoto Sakurabayashi.
Deepa S. Reddy: The Ethnicity of Caste.
Bayard Rustin: Black Americans Urge Admission of the Indochinese Refugees.
Nico Slate: Translating Race and Caste.
Ilya Somin: Frederick Douglass on immigration. (About Douglas arguing against the Chinese Exclusion Act.)
Kanishk Tharoor: The Debt MLK Owed to India’s Anti-Colonial Fight: The campaign against Jim Crow was always embedded in a larger global battle against white supremacy.
Resources on the Third World Liberation Front.
SNCC profile of Tamio Wakayama, a Japanese member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the organization’s official photographer.
Nina Wallace: Yellow Power: The Origins of Asian America.
Benjamin Young: North Korea’s Unlikely History with Black Radicals.
Benjamin Young: Juche in the United States: The Black Panther Party’s Relations with North Korea, 1969-1971.
Gao Yunxiang: W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois in Maoist China.
Gao Yunxiang: Arise, Africa! Roar, China! Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century.
Videos & Podcasts
Lecture by Vivek Bald, author of Bengali Harlem.
Grace and James Lee Boggs: The Story of Jimmy Boggs. Clips from American Revolutionary: Meeting Grace Lee Boggs, The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, Defining Revolution, On Revolution at Berkeley (with Angela Davis), and a filmmaker interview.
Historian Matthew Briones, author of Jim and Jap Crow, explores Black/Japanese solidarity in the life of Charles Kikuchi, in conversation with Cornell West.
Diane Fujino, weighing in on the controversy of Japanese Black Panther Richard Aoki working as an FBI informant.
Yuri Kochiyama: Yuri talks about holding Malcolm as he died in this interview. Here, she talks about meeting him. Also see You Don’t Say No To Yuri Kochiyama, from the New Asian American Writers & Literature podcast. See also: Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama.
Laura Pulido: lecture on her book Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles.
Gao Yunxiang: Liu Liangmo (刘良模 1909-1988) —Transpacific Mass Singing, Journalism, and Christian Activism.