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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..
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.
Martin Luther King\'s tie to Gandhi\'s India and Black Nationalists\' post-1970s fascination with Maoist China and Ho\'s Vietnam.
Following World War II, Japanese-influenced Afro-Asian Solidarity did not die, but rather foreshadowed Dr.
Indeed, many of them called themselves Asiatic, not African.
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. war effort.
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.
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Washington, Marcus Garvey, and particularly W.
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The list of supporters included Booker T.
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.
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.
The surpRising alliance between Japan and pro-Tokyo African Americans during World War II In November 1942 in East St
