“Dazzling! Spectacular! In this sweeping yet intimate account of Southern California and the Pacific Basin against the backdrop of his diverse family, Daniel Widener provides an utterly unique way to tell a profoundly important story.” - Gerald Horne, author of (Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s) “Protests against police violence and inequalities revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic have created an urgent sense that we can’t go back to the way things were. But how do we move forward? Weaving together threads of antiracism, anticapitalism, and anti-imperialism, Daniel Widener’s book charts a path, blending a deep exploration of the history of relational organizing with sharp analysis of the way that our frameworks of race and ethnicity are shaped by global understandings of race and social movements. <i>Third Worlds Within</i> is the right book for these times.” - Natalia Molina, author of (A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community)
A Note on Terminologies of Race and Place xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: The Dream of a Common Language 1
Part I. Communities
1. The Afro-Asian City: African American and Japanese American Los Angeles 33
2. An Art for Both My Peoples: Visual Cultures of Black and Brown Unity 61
Part II. Cultures
3. People’s Songs and People’s Wars: Paredon Records and the Sound of Revolutionary Asia 91
4. Many Fronts, One Struggle: Visual Histories of Indigenous Radicalism 113
Part III. Campaigns
5. The Korea Blues: Black Dissent during the Korean War 175
6. Continent to Continent: Black Los Angeles against Apartheid 203
Epilogue: On the Current Conjuncture 235
Notes 241
Bibliography 307
Index 347
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Biografisk notat
Daniel Widener is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles, also published by Duke University Press.Vijay Prashad is the Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and the author of numerous books.