Cold War Solidarities: Black Radicalism and Korean Anti-imperialism
Introduction
Forthcoming...
Keywords
Police terrorism
United front
Antifascism
Deportation
Freedom dreams
Non-alignment
Tricontinental
American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born
Racialized counterintelligence
COINTELPRO
Questions
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How does our understanding of McCarthyism shift when we consider that the “Red scare” was a “Black scare”?
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Additional questions forthcoming...
Study Materials
[Book chapter] Cleaver, Eldridge, Foreword, Juche: The Speeches and Writings of Kim Il Sung (New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972), ix-xii.
[Book chapter] Burden-Stelly, Charisse, “War, Wall Street Imperialism, and (Inter-)National Accumulation,” Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023)
[Book chapter] Frazier, Robeson Taj, “A Passport Ain’t Worth a Cent,” The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014)
[Book chapter] Widener, Daniel, “The Korea Blues: Black Dissent During the Korean War”, Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity (Durham: Duke University Press, 2024)
[Article] Abe, Kodai, “Afro-Asian Antagonisms and the Long Korean War,” American Literature 95, no. 4: 701-728 (2023)
[Oral History] Cline, David P., Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
[News Column] Jones, Claudia, “For the Unity of Women in the Cause of Peace 1951,” Internationalism in Practice: Claudia Jones, Black Liberation, and the “Bestial” War on Korea (Seattle: Iskra Books, 2024)
[Pamphlet] Robert Williams, Listen Brother (New York: World View Publishers, 1968)
[Speech Transcript] Robeson, Paul, “Denounce the Korean Intervention,” June 28, 1950, If We Must Die: African American Voices on War and Peace, Kristen L. Stanford ed. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008)
[Petition] Civil Rights Congress, “Opening Statement,” We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People (New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951), 3-28
