{"product_id":"afro-orientalism","title":"Afro Orientalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eReveals a century of political solidarity uniting Asians and African Americans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs early as 1914, in his pivotal essay “The World Problem of the Color Line,” W. E. B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro-Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In \u003ci\u003eAfro-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary thought and writing developed by African American and Asian American artists and intellectuals in response to Du Bois’s challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfro-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e unfolds here as a distinctive strand of cultural and political work that contests the longstanding, dominant discourse about race and nation first fully named in Edward Said’s\u003ci\u003e Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e. Mullen tracks Afro-Asian engagement with U.S. imperialism-including writings by Richard Wright, Grace and James Boggs, Robert F. Williams, and Fred Ho-and companion struggles against racism and capitalism around the globe. To this end, he offers \u003ci\u003eAfro-Orientalism\u003c\/i\u003e as an antidote to essentialist, race-based, or narrow conceptions of ethnic studies and postcolonial studies, calling on scholars in these fields to re-imagine their critical enterprises as mutually constituting and politically interdependent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54239864029528,"sku":"9780816637492","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/afro-orientalism","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}