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During a lengthy incarceration spent mostly in solitary confinement, Russell Maroon Shoatz developed into a prolific writer and voice for the disenfranchised. This first published collection of his accumulated works showcases his understanding of the current historical moment, with proposals for how to move forward embracing new political concepts and practices

Klappentext: Legacy to Liberation is a groundbreaking anthology which documents & analyzes three decades of radical and revolutionary movement building in Asian-America from the 60s to the 90s. Penetrating essays are interwoven with archival photos, artwork, poetry, and an appendix of rare manifestos, position papers and other documents, compiled by veteran and younger Asian Pacific American activist-fighters, from across the U.S.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I the african and asian diasporas in the west: 1800-1950 -- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Roots to the Black-Asian Conflict -- Chinese Freedom Fighters in Cuba: From Bondage to Liberation, 1847-1898 -- Seoul City Sue and the Bugout Blues: Black American Narratives of the Forgotten War -- PART II from bandung to the black panthers: national liberation, the third world, mao, and malcolm -- Statement Supporting the Afro-American in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism, August 8, 1963 -- Statement by Mao Tse-Tung, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression, April 16, 1968 -- Black Like Mao: Red China and Black Revolution -- The Inspiration of Mao and the Chinese Revolution on the Black Liberation Movement and the Asian Movement on the East Coast -- The Black Liberation Movement and Japanese American Activism: The Radical Activism of Richard Aoki and Yuri Kochiyama -- Why Do We Lie about Telling the Truth? -- PART III afro/asian arts: catalysts, collaborations, and the coltrane aesthetic -- The Yellow and the Black -- Not Just a ''Special Issue'': Gender, Sexuality, and Post-1965 Afro Asian Coalition Building in the Yardbird Reader and This Bridge Called My Back -- Bill Cole: African American Musician of the Asian Double Reeds -- Martial Arts Is Nothing if Not Cool: Speculations on the Intersection between Martial Arts and African American Expressive Culture -- The American Drum Set: Black Musicians and Chinese Opera along the Mississippi River -- Is Kung Fu Racist? -- Yellow Lines: Asian Americans and Hip Hop -- PART IV afro/asia expressive writing -- Secret Colors and the Possibilities of Coalition: An African American-Asian American Collaboration -- We Don't Stand a Chinaman's Chance Unless We Create a Revolution -- El Chino -- Samchun in the Grocery Store -- Self-Rebolusyon, April 1998 -- Chyna and Me -- All That -- Contributors -- Index

With a Foreword by Vijay Prashad and an Afterword by Gary OkihiroHow might we understand yellowface performances by African Americans in 1930s swing adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, Paul Robeson's support of Asian and Asian American struggles, or the absorption of hip hop by Asian American youth culture?AfroAsian Encounters is the first anthology to look at the mutual influence of and relationships between members of the African and Asian diasporas. While these two groups have often been thought of as occupying incommensurate, if not opposing, cultural and political positions, scholars from history, literature, media, and the visual arts here trace their interconnections and interactions, as well as the tensions between the two groups that sometimes arise. AfroAsian Encounters probes beyond popular culture to trace the historical lineage of these coalitions from the late nineteenth century to the present.A foreword by Vijay Prashad sets the volume in the context of the Bandung conference half a century ago, and an afterword by Gary Okihiro charts the contours of a "Black Pacific." From the history of Japanese jazz composers to the current popularity of black/Asian "buddy films" like Rush Hour, AfroAsian Encounters is a groundbreaking intervention into studies of race and ethnicity and a crucial look at the shifting meaning of race in the twenty-first century