Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The crisis of Black masculinity -- Enter the Black Dragons -- Black Panther martial art -- How do you like my Wu-Tang style? -- The Sound of a Dragon: Fred Ho's Afro Asian jazz martial arts -- Here be dragons: the odyssey toward liberation -- Post: A virtual kinesthesia.
Summary:
"Deploys martial arts as a lens to analyze performance, power, and identity within the evolving fusion of Black and Asian American cultures in history and media, including case studies such as 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"-- Provided by publisher
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