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Facing the Rising Sun : African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity by Gerald Horne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Facing the Rising Sun : African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity about?
The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War IIIn November 1942 in East St. Louis, Illinois a group of African Americans engaged in military drills were eagerly awaiting a Japanese invasion of the U.S.― an invasion that they planned to join. Since the rise of Japan as a superpower less than a century earlier, African Americans across class and ideological lines had saluted the Asian nation, not least because they thought its very existence undermined the pervasive notion of “white supremacy.” The list of supporters included Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, and particularly W.E.B. Du Bois. Facing the Rising Sun tells the story of the widespread pro-Tokyo sentiment among African Americans during World War II, arguing that the solidarity between the two groups was significantly corrosive to the U.S. war effort. Gerald Horne demonstrates that Black Nationalists of various stripes were the vanguard of this trend―including followers of Garvey and the precursor of the Nation of Islam. Indeed, many of them called themselves “Asiatic”, not African. Following World War II, Japanese-influenced “Afro-Asian” solidarity did not die, but rather foresh
Who reads Facing the Rising Sun : African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gerald Horne
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781479848591
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Political Science