Rychetta Watkins, Memphis, Tennessee, is assistant professor of English at Rhodes College. Her work has appeared in M/MLA Journal, MELUS, and the Southern Quarterly.
Rychetta Watkins's book qualifies as a must-read for anyone
interested in the rich history of Afro-Asian political and cultural
formations. She offers a highly persuasive account of how the
revolutionary thought of Fanon and Mao was taken up by African
American and Asian American activists and writers in the 1960s and
1970s. She cogently conveys the formidable vision of social change
that advocates of Black and Yellow Power promoted--a vision that
remains, she eloquently argues, as relevant today as when it
emerged.--Daniel Y. Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and
Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of
Identity
This spirited book traces important footsteps left by black and
Asian writers, radicals and cultural workers bound by common dreams
of change and revolution. Rychetta Watkins forges a stirring mode
of guerilla scholarship to remind us of how the battle for power on
the streets of the 1960s changed the university forever.--Bill V.
Mullen, coeditor (with Cathryn Watson) of W. E. B. Du Bois on Asia:
Crossing the World Color Line
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