Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting by Vijay Prashad
Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity
A lively, revisionist account of twentieth-century Afro–Asian encounters that shows how anti-colonial politics, popular culture and revolutionary movements created cross-cultural solidarities and hybrid identities across Africa, Asia and the Black diaspora. Drawing on cinema, music, martial arts, political conferences and leftist movements, it traces how ideas and cultural forms—from Maoist thought and Bandung-era diplomacy to Black Power and kung fu films—moved between continents, challenged Western dominance, and complicated simple notions of cultural purity. The book argues that modernity and resistance were transnational processes shaped by mutual influence rather than isolated national stories, and it highlights forgotten networks of cooperation and exchange that reshaped politics and popular culture in the postcolonial world.
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- 2001
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- British
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- English
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