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Books by and About
Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson (Lives of the Left) /
Here I Stand /
Paul Robeson Speaks /
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939
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Paul Robeson: The Years of Promise And
Achievement
Raul Robeson: Citizen of the World
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The Young Paul Robeson: On My Journey Now
Paul Robeson: The Great Forerunner /
Paul
Robeson the Life and Times of a Free Black Man
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Interrogating
Black-Asian Coalition
Fifty Years After
Bandung
The
State of Black-Asian Relations
In April of 1955, 29
African and Asian nations came together in Bandung, Indonesia
for the Asian-African
Conference to promote economic and cultural
cooperation and oppose colonialism. More popularly referred to
as "Bandung," this gathering was historic because it
brought together newly independent colored nations and posed a
challenge to western and white dominance. It is believed that
the notion of the "third
world" emerged from Bandung to demonstrate a
rejection of both the west and ideologies associated with it.
Bandung has been celebrated and referenced by many activists and
intellectuals including W.E.B.
DuBois, Paul
Robeson, Richard
Wright, Malcolm
X, Yuri
Kochiyama, Vijay
Prashad, Robin
Kelley, and Makani
Themba-Nixon.
Today, calls for coalition
between Blacks and Asian American are common and therefore
rarely interrogated. But
since Bandung, the world has changed somewhat, with the Asian
population in the US growing rapidly through immigration.
Today, Asian Americans have more wealth and
education than
Blacks and are also less
residentially segregated. Since the 1992
LA Riot, the call
to "go
beyond Black and white" has gained more
political momentum among both the left and right.
Blacks have been charged with anti-Asian
racism, including the murders
of Chinese food delivery workers, Shaq
versus Yao and the
Hot 97 "Tsunami Song."
Today we also have Asian Americans opposing
affirmative action, generating wealth from owning
businesses in Black neighborhoods, creating the board
game "Ghettopoly"
and using Black
cultural and political expressions to critique African Americans.
Thus, fifty years later, we
seek to explore the possibilities and reality of Black-Asian
relations in the US. Join us in Philly as Black and Asian
American activists come together to discuss tensions between
Blacks and Asians, what we see as the roots of conflicts, how
this informs our activist projects, and whether coalition is
viable between our communities. Panelists will draw from their
activist experiences, which includes international solidarity
work, educational justice, immigrant rights organizing,
non-profit funding analysis, anti-gentrification projects, queer
justice, and anti-police violence work. We hope you join us as
we convene a panel and community dialogue that
honestly explores the state of Black-Asian relations today and
whether solidarity is really possible.
Sponsored by the Third
World Coalition of the American Friends Service
Committee
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Tuesday,
August 2 from 6:30pm-9:30pm
AFSC Friends Center, 1515
Cherry Street/Philadelphia (Rufus Jones Room)
Free and
open to the public
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Panelists
Rodney
Camarce
Rodney Camarce is a poet and artist, currently working
as a teaching artist with the Asian
Arts Initiative, and a community organizer with the People's
Institute For Survival and Beyond.
Mary
Dillard
Mary Dillard teaches African
History and Global
Studies at Sarah
Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY.
She is currently the book review editor of Jenda:
a Journal of African Women’s Studies.
She has published, taught courses and presented research
on: globalization, imperialism, science, technology and medicine
in Africa, African educational history, and the continuing
legacy of the Trans-Atlantic
slave trade. One
of her articles on globalization as it relates to Africa,
“Examination Standards, Educational Assessments, and
Globalizing Elites: The Case of the West African Examinations
Council,” was published in The
Journal of African American History special issue
“Africa and Globalization” (volume 88, number 4).
She is currently working on a book about educational
testing in Africa entitled From Measuring Skulls to Measuring Skills: Examinations and Mental
Measurement in West Africa.
She lives in New York City.
Nijmie
Dzurinko
Nijmie
Dzurinko is a political activist, poet, popular educator and
organizer. She has worked with the Philadelphia
Student Union, and is a founding member of
the International
Women's Peace Service. She is interested in the
neo-colonial situation in which people of color and poor and
working class people find ourselves in at the present time -
specifically in how to negotiate this time, the possibilities
for educating ourselves, and seizing opportunities for change.
Kenyon
Farrow
Kenyon
Farrow is a writer and organizer living in
Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of the national
organizing body of Critical
Resistance —a national organization dedicated to
finding alternatives to incarceration. Kenyon
has written several articles and essays, including
Is Gay Marriage Anti-Black? and We
Real Cool?: On Hip-Hop, Asian-Americans, Black Folks, and
Appropriation Kenyon has appeared on radio,
TV, in print, has given many public lectures and served on many
panels dealing with race and prison issues, and race and queer
issues as well. He has an essay in the upcoming anthology of
Black Gay male writing, “Think
Again 2”, and finished his first book project
entitled
Letters
from Young Activists co-edited with Dan Berger and
Chesa Boudin, due out in fall 2005 with Nation Books.
Helen
Gym
Helen
Gym has worked with Asian
Americans United since 1994 and is on the founding
board of the Folk
Arts and Cultural Treasures Charter School, a school
focused on the needs of immigrant children and families. With a
background in second language acquisition, she currently
consults on curriculum issues in Asian American studies,
immigrant children, and multicultural education. In 2001-2, she
was a key organizer and media strategist of a coalition that
successfully limited
the privatization of public schools in Philadelphia.
She was also an organizer and media strategist for two
broad-based coalitions to oppose
a baseball stadium in Chinatown. Ms. Gym is a former
public school teacher and is on the board of the Philadelphia
Public School Notebook and Asian Americans United.
She is a Philadelphia public school parent.
Tiffany
King
Tiffany King is a community
organizer and educator working and living in Wilmington, DE
where she grew up. She is a co-founder of Resistahs, a community education
collective focusing on transformative education for black women.
Members of the collective are co-creating community
education programs with black women in high schools,
GED classes, Delaware Technical Community College, and members
of tenant's councils in public and subsidized housing in the
State. Tiffany
is also a substitute teacher with the Vocational and Technical
School District in Wilmington, DE and Vice Chair of the Board of
Directors for the Community Economic Development Association of
Delaware. From 1998 through 2003, Tiffany worked with a
number of groups in Philadelphia including the Paul
Robeson House, the Black
Radical Congress, the Philadelphia Unemployment
Project, and the Center for Responsible Funding.
Monami
Maulik
Monami
Maulik has worked as an immigrant, labor, and youth
organizer in New York City for several years.
In 1999, Monami co-founded DRUM-
Desis Rising Up & Moving as one of the first low-income
South Asian community-based organizations for social justice in
the U.S. DRUM
organizes low income South Asian immigrant communities and
immigrant detainees for immigrant justice.
Prior to that Monami worked with the NY
Taxi Workers Alliance, the Women
Workers Project at CAAAV (Organizing Asian Communities),
TICO (Training Institute for Careers in Organizing), and served
on various city-wide coalitions and campaigns around policing,
youth organizing, and racial justice. Monami serves on the Advisory Board of the North
Star Fund, the Steering Committee of the New
York City Organizing Support Center, and on the BRIDGE
(Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy)
Trainer’s Bureau. In 2001, Monami received the Union
Square Award and the Open Society Institute Community
Fellowship of the Soros
Foundation. In 2002, Monami received the Jane Bagley Lehman Award from
the Tides
Foundation in recognition of her organizing for immigrants
rights and civil liberties post- September 11, 2001.
In 2003, Monami presented at the United
Nations Commission on Human Rights Meeting in Geneva and in
2005 at the Global Commission
on International Migration.
She is currently the Director and Organizer with the Immigrant
Justice Program of DRUM.
Tamara
Nopper
Tamara K. Nopper is
a writer, educator and activist whose work explores white
supremacy/nationalism, Asian American-Black relations,
globalization, immigration, citizenship, and nation. She
currently volunteers with the Central
Committee for Conscientious Objectors, an anti-war
and counter-military recruitment organization.
Ewuare
Osayande
Ewuare Osayande is
a political activist, poet and author of several books including
Black Anti-Ballistic Missives: Resisting War/Resisting Racism
He is co-founder of POWER
(People Organized Working to Eradicate
Racism) and creator of ONUS: Redefining Black Manhood.
Forthcoming books include a collection of essays entitled
Misogyny
and the Emcee: Exposing the Exploitation of Black Women in Hip
Hop
and a book of poems entitled
Blood
Luxury which will be published by Africa
World Press.
Moderated by Darryl
Jordan, Director of the Third World Coalition of AFSC
If you have any questions, please contact Tamara K. Nopper at tnopper@yahoo.com
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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