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



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Autore: Watkins Rychetta Visualizza persona
Titolo: Black power, yellow power, and the making of revolutionary identities [[electronic resource] /] / Rychetta Watkins Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
Disciplina: 323.1196/0730904
Soggetto topico: 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
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
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ISBN: 1-62103-145-4
1-283-33346-5
9786613333469
1-61703-162-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781599603321
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