African Americans have a rich history of involvement in the global world. The Chinese Revolution occurred in 1949. It was the culmination of a two year conflict with the Nationalist government, which fled to Taiwan in 1949. On October 1, 1949, Communist leader Mao Zedong officially declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Below please find information about the revolution and African American engagement with its historical and contemporary meanings.
NOTE--This informational blog is compiled by (with the exception of the introduction and photograph) and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD.
Mao https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33h.htm https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/mao-tsetung-discrimination https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/mao-zedong-race-riots-1968/ https://tinyurl.com/ya6z8tt8
WEB and Shirley Graham DuBois https://youtu.be/mzOBaq8Bx0A https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b246-i002 https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b161-i367 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yV5KbAzjVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBqIOC4x11M http://vandvreader.org/mao-tse-tung-greeting-w-e-b-du-bois-and-shirley-graham-du-bois-1959/
Paul Robeson https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-peoples-republic-of-china-embraced-paul-robeson
Langston Hughes https://www.historic-shanghai.com/roar-china-langston-hughes-in-shanghai/ https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/roar-china
Africans in China https://africansinchina.net/2019/04/08/blackness-in-modern-china-w-e-b-du-bois-and-chinese-representations-of-blackness/
Vicki Garvin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Garvin
Abdul Alkalimat https://www.alkalimat.org/204%201974%20notes%20on%20new%20china.pdf
Robert Williams https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1966/PR1966-33p.htm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mao_and_Robert_F.Williams.jpg https://tinyurl.com/45zzmsm7 https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/panthers-and-the-premier
Huey Newton and Black Panthers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMufnCCdghk https://www.chinafile.com/viewpoint/let-one-hundred-panthers-bloom https://www.picturingblackhistory.org/panthers-and-the-premiere https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/11/08/maoism-anti-imperialism-and-the-third-world%E2%80%A8/ https://www.researchgate.net/figure/March-22-1972-Members-of-the-BPP-delegation-with-barefoot-doctors-near-Nanniwan-nanniwan-a_fig2_355979552
Interview with Gao Yunxiang https://uncpress.org/author/130094-yunxiang-gao/ https://socialistchina.org/2022/06/13/arise-africa-roar-china-interview-with-gao-yunxiang/
Robin Kelley and Betsy Esch https://tinyurl.com/3wsxjzs4
Fred Ho and Bill Mullen, ed., Afro Asia https://tinyurl.com/3cyx8wy3
Melvin Barnes Jr. China and the Black Liberation Struggle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEmFFVAImMc
Robeson Taj Frazier, The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68948
John Oliver Killens https://www.amazon.com/Black-China-John-Oliver-Killens/dp/B001IP3X9Q
Art https://ne-np.facebook.com/thewaltersartmuseum/videos/the-african-american-experience-in-chinese-depictions-of-global-socialism/1025982141685720/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos
Teaching China Through Black History https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blog/teaching-china-through-black-history-%EF%BF%BC/
‘Arise Africa, Roar China’ https://socialistchina.org/category/racism/
Black Power in China: Mao's Support https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/research/blog/black-power-in-china-maos-support-for-african-american-racial-struggle-as-class-struggle/