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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457284703321

Autore

Watkins Rychetta

Titolo

Black power, yellow power, and the making of revolutionary identities [[electronic resource] /] / Rychetta Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012

ISBN

1-62103-145-4

1-283-33346-5

9786613333469

1-61703-162-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/0730904

Soggetti

African Americans - Relations with Asian Americans

Black power - United States - History - 20th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

Asian Americans - Politics and government - 20th century

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - Asian American authors - History and criticism

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Black power in literature

African Americans - Race identity

Asian Americans - Ethnic identity

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: developing a critical perspective on power in literature -- Translating Fanon: Black and yellow power as American anticolonialisms -- From gorilla to guerilla: defining revolutionary identity -- Power and the ivory tower: academics as intellectual guerillas -- Reading resistance: the guerilla in literature -- Promise vs. praxis: the legacies of power.

Sommario/riassunto

Images of upraised fists, afros, and dashikis have long dominated the collective memory of Black Power and its proponents. The ""guerilla"" figure-taking the form of the black-leather-clad revolutionary within



the Black Panther Party-has become an iconic trope in American popular culture. That politically radical figure, however, has been shaped as much by Asian American cultural discourse as by African American political ideology. From the Asian-African Conference held in April of 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia, onward to the present, Afro-Asian political collaboration has been active and influen