Asia
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans (2008)
Book Review by Marina Davis This is an essay collection organized into four parts: The African and Asian Diasporas In the West: 1800-1950, From Bandung to the Black Panthers: National Liberation, The Third World, Mao, and Malcolm, Afro/Asian Arts: Catalysts,...
Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia (2008)
Book Review Written by Marina Davis This is a collection of essays with ten chapters preceded by a foreword by the editors and followed by an extensive annotated bibliography. Each chapter consists of one essay. Essay topics include the different community groups of...
Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) (2005)
Book review by Marina Davis This book is an edited volume of essays and studies on the subjects of “unfree” labor and abolition in the Indian Ocean World (IOW). The book starts with an introduction outlining the basic components of slavery in the IOW, how the enslaved...
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian Americans (2013)
Vivek Bald's groundbreaking work about the socio-economic integration of Bengali and Muslim South Asian immigrants into Black communities in the U.S. is an unprecedently well-researched and delicately written history of Black and Brown solidarity in America. The book...
African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of Forced Migration (2009)
This book comes from Luso-Asian and Indian Ocean historian Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, who tackles issues of forced migration in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, as well as the persistent importance of Portuguese colonial trade links in the merchant networks between the...
African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat (2006)
This book focuses on elites of sub-Saharan African-Indian descent who held positions like merchants, nobles, and political rulers from the15th and 20th centuries. Representation of Habshis and Sidis (Indians of East African origin) in art history highlights the...
