Third Worlds Within

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.

• Foreword / Vijay Prashad  ixA Note on Terminologies of Race and Place  xiiiAcknowledgments  xvIntroduction: The Dream of a Common Language  1Part I. Communities1. The Afro-Asian City: African American and Japanese American Los Angeles  332. An Art for Both My Peoples: Visual Cultures of Black and Brown Unity  61Part II. Cultures3. People’s Songs and People’s Wars: Paredon Records and the Sound of Revolutionary Asia  914. Many Fronts, One Struggle: Visual Histories of Indigenous Radicalism  113Part III. Campaigns5. The Korea Blues: Black Dissent during the Korean War  1756. Continent to Continent: Black Los Angeles against Apartheid  203Epilogue: On the Current Conjuncture  235Notes  241Bibliography  307Index  347

“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. Third Worlds Within is the right book for these times.” - Natalia Molina, author of (A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community)