{"id":40086,"date":"2015-02-23T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40086"},"modified":"2015-02-23T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:13:02","slug":"the-secret-history-of-south-asian-african-american-solidarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40086","title":{"rendered":"The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Secret History of South Asian & African American Solidarity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2015-02-16<\/p>\n

Frances Kai-Hwa Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Most Americans know about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s<\/a> adoption of Gandhian<\/a> non-violent principles. Not as well known is the shared solidarity between South Asians and African Americans that dates back over a hundred years.<\/p>\n

For African American History Month, one of the curators of the famed Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour<\/a>, Anirvan Chatterjee<\/a>, has launched a new digital project to highlight that hidden past, called, “The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

“Since the tragedy in Ferguson<\/a>, I’ve been seeing a lot of Asian Americans working to engage anti-Black racism through conversations in their families and communities, protests, and direct action,” said Chatterjee, “but they’re not the first.”<\/p>\n

Pairing period photographs with quotes and adding short historical captions, Chatterjee shows how African Americans repeatedly advanced South Asian rights, such as the NAACP<\/a> passing a resolution in favor of Indian independence, Langston Hughes<\/a>‘ poems about the oppression of South Asian freedom fighters, and Bayard Rustin<\/a>, lead organizer of the 1963 March on Washington<\/a>, forming the Free India Committee while in jail…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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