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Asian American Histories Of The U.S. with Catherine Choy

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Asian Black Solidarity in the Civil Rights Struggle

I'm curious if there were moments of solidarity between the asia black communities in, you know, the period of the civil right struggle of the sixtiesd et cetera. So we now have ethnic studies to day. It came out of struggles in the late 19 sixties when newly defined asian americans a were in solidarity with the black student union and the third world liberation front. There is actually also a a hundred and 50 plus here history of that solidarity as well,. going back to 18 69 with frederick douglas's speech a supporting chinese emigration to the united states. Here it goes back to african American soldiers who were colonizing the philippians

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