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sumayyah_t's review against another edition
4.0
A very informative and thought-provoking collection of essays. Worthy of discussion and future re-reads. Highly recommended.
amethysthunter's review against another edition
5.0
4.5/5
Warning: this book is dense...but I've never read anything like it and am unconvinced anything like it may exist. Afro Asia is a collection containing expansive texts and writings by African American and Asian/American revolutionaries.
Notably it includes ways that the BPP was inspired by Maoism, Mao's 1963 and 1968 statements in support of the Afro-American struggle, the Bandung Conference (a first of its kind 1955 Asian-African conference held in Bandung, Indonesia), and various cultural pieces including the relationships between Asian Ams and hip hop. It was also really interesting seeing the chapter on Richard Aioki and Yuri Kochiyama and how since the book was published in 2008, Aioki was allegedly revealed to be an undercover agent for the FBI (which Fred Ho has denounced).
Warning: this book is dense...but I've never read anything like it and am unconvinced anything like it may exist. Afro Asia is a collection containing expansive texts and writings by African American and Asian/American revolutionaries.
Notably it includes ways that the BPP was inspired by Maoism, Mao's 1963 and 1968 statements in support of the Afro-American struggle, the Bandung Conference (a first of its kind 1955 Asian-African conference held in Bandung, Indonesia), and various cultural pieces including the relationships between Asian Ams and hip hop. It was also really interesting seeing the chapter on Richard Aioki and Yuri Kochiyama and how since the book was published in 2008, Aioki was allegedly revealed to be an undercover agent for the FBI (which Fred Ho has denounced).
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