Black Dragon Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
Price, Zachary F.
Black Dragon Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination - The Ohio State University Press 2022 - 1 online resource
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In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing on case studies that include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's appearance in Bruce Lee's film Game of Death, Ron Van Clief and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Wu-Tang Clan, and Chinese American saxophonist Fred Ho, Price argues that the regular blending and borrowing between these distinct cultural heritages is healing rather than appropriative. His analyses of performance, power, and identity within this cultural fusion demonstrate how, historically, urban working-class Black men have developed community and practiced self-care through the contested adoption of Asian martial arts practice. By zeroing in on this rich but heretofore understudied vein of American cultural exchange, Price not only broadens the scholarship around sites of empowerment via such exchanges but also offers a compelling example of nonessentialist liberation for the twenty-first century.
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/doi.org/10.26818/9780814214602 9780814214602
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Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Literature: history & criticism
Literature: history & criticism
African American & Black American American Asian American Drama Literary Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism
Black Dragon Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination - The Ohio State University Press 2022 - 1 online resource
Open Access
In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing on case studies that include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's appearance in Bruce Lee's film Game of Death, Ron Van Clief and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Wu-Tang Clan, and Chinese American saxophonist Fred Ho, Price argues that the regular blending and borrowing between these distinct cultural heritages is healing rather than appropriative. His analyses of performance, power, and identity within this cultural fusion demonstrate how, historically, urban working-class Black men have developed community and practiced self-care through the contested adoption of Asian martial arts practice. By zeroing in on this rich but heretofore understudied vein of American cultural exchange, Price not only broadens the scholarship around sites of empowerment via such exchanges but also offers a compelling example of nonessentialist liberation for the twenty-first century.
Creative Commons
English
/doi.org/10.26818/9780814214602 9780814214602
https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214602 doi
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
Literature: history & criticism
Literature: history & criticism
African American & Black American American Asian American Drama Literary Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism