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Author Horne, Gerald, author.

Title Facing the rising sun : African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity / Gerald Horne.

Publication Info. New York, NY : New York University Press, 2018.
©2018

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Japan rises / Negroes cheer -- Harlem, Addis Ababa and Tokyo -- Japan establishes a foothold in Black America -- White supremacy loses "face" -- Pro-Tokyo Negroes convicted and imprisoned -- Japanese Americans interned, Negroes next? -- "Brown Americans" fight "brown Japanese" in the Pacific War? -- Aftermath.
Summary The surprising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In 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 foreshadowed Dr. Martin Luther King's tie to Gandhi's India and Black Nationalists' post-1970s fascination with Maoist China and Ho's Vietnam. Based upon exhaustive research, including the trial transcripts of the pro-Tokyo African Americans who were tried during the war, congressional archives and records of the Negro press, this book also provides essential background for what many analysts consider the coming "Asian Century." An insightful glimpse into the Black Nationalists' struggle for global leverage and new allies, Facing the Rising Sun provides a complex, holistic perspective on a painful period in African American history, and a unique glimpse into the meaning of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
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Subject African Americans -- History.
African Americans.
History.
Solidarity -- African Americans.
Solidarity.
Solidarity -- Asian Americans.
Asian Americans.
Slavery -- United States.
Slavery.
United States.
Race relations.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Horne, Gerald. Facing the rising sun. New York, NY : New York University Press, 2018 147984859X 9781479848591 (OCoLC)982511854
ISBN 9781479899852 (electronic book)
1479899852 (electronic book)
9781479848591
147984859X