...Hala Halim As part of the endeavor to seek out nonmetropolitan forms of comparatism, this article addresses the trilingual periodical Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings that was published by the Afro-Asian Writers’ Association from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. Lotus , the article argues...

.... The first section contains a historically specific discussion of wealth-in-people to situate Afro-Asians in the subcontinent. The second outlines two Mughal historians of the late eighteenth century who also remembered these Afro-Asian lineages in honorable ways. A third section outlines moments...

...Cindy Ewing Abstract This article explores the significance of minority rights to postcolonial internationalism by examining an emerging Afro-Asian collective at the United Nations in the late 1940s. As postcolonial nations became UN member-states, they fostered transnational solidarity through...

... of the African renaissance have been driven as much by Afro-optimism as by Afro-pessimism, by both the positive and the negative political and economic changes that have taken place in postcolonial Africa. The essay is divided into four parts. It begins with a brief survey of the resurgence of the idea...

... on race and an interrogation of whether his choices were a result of innate biases or larger historical forces that defined the possibilities of political action. Afro-Indian relations remain problematic in the postapartheid era despite the commemoration of Gandhi as an anticolonial hero. A critical...

...Shobana Shankar Abstract This article explores how pilgrimage to Arabia became the catalyst for Northern Nigerian Muslim leaders to develop a kind of humanitarianism for the poor to expand their political power in the era of independence from Britain and postcolonial Afro-Arab alliance-making...

...Esmat Elhalaby Abstract Third Worldism, Afro-Asianism, nonalignment, and their associated projects were not simply diplomatic agendas on the international stage; they were cultural and epistemological projects tied to smaller, older geographies of significance. Beyond the politicians’ conferences...

... transformed into an informal yet highly strategic alliance that lasted until the end of the global Cold War. This article calls for a broader conceptualization of inter-Asian and Afro-Asian solidarities that incorporates the narratives and activities of the non-Western Right and provides a new reading of Cold...

... of those who formerly in a surreptitious manner. In some countries like denied any connection with any slave or African past Reunion Island, the Afro-Malagasy influence in culture or origin will now come forward and claim compensa- is hardly discussed or recognized at official or aca- tion? How...

... since 1949; Rhodesia to immigrate to Guyana in order to main- by the expulsion of Asians from Uganda in the early tain a desired demographic balance between blacks 1970s; and, of course, by the tradition of Afro-Asian and South Asians. political competition...

...,” in David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo, eds., Across the Dark Waters: Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Caribbean , pp. 175 –200. London: Macmillan. Reichert , R. 1965 . “Os Musulmanos nas Guianas,” Afro-Asia 1 : 9 –31. Ryan , Selwyn . 1972 . Race and Nationalism in Trinidad...

...- arrived in the island. The first were the slaves and some opments between all three strands, evolving by the time colored people coming with Empire Loyalists when of emancipation into an Afro-Jamaican Christianity @ 1997: COMHRATIVESTUDIES OF SOUTHASIA, AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE€AsT...

... and multilingual archives—state, corporate, and private—these efforts have led to interdisciplinary and cross-regional scholarly as well as artistic productions. Inter-Asian mobilities, Afro-Arab linkages, Afro-Asian “infrastructures of solidarity,” Afro-Orientalism, and Persian Gulf urbanities are just a few...

... Afro-Iranian identity. 36 In her book, The History of Slave and Emancipation in Iran, 1800–1929 , Mirzai argues that some descendants of enslaved Africans have “a single, but transmutable collective identity” that is not defined by a history of enslavement, but is a natural ethnic subset...

... of promoting a common black identity or consciousness among Asians and Afro-West Indians in Great Britain as a means of combating racism has been actively pursued over the last two decades. 1 The historical roots of the "black liberation movement" in Great Britain, however...

...-to-date studies ap- pear, hopefully by Asians, on the Asian dimension of aonic times; it is not for nothing that the dominant lan- the African diaspora, we will remain grossly uninformed guage family of this region is known as Afro-Asiatic. about the scope and impact of the global dimension...

... is the Working People's Alliance led by sev- community, is th-e fact that since 1968, era1 intellectuals long known for their by all evidence, elections have been rig- commitment to socialism and Afro,-Asian unity 9 . ged by Burnham. There is simply no way Burnham advised these leaders...

... dealing with Rhodesian emigrants fleeing the country after the Unilateral Declaration of Independence. 74 But India would continue its vocal protest against the actions of the Smith government in the United Nations, leading the Afro-Asian bloc in insisting for immediate majority rule. It was a position...

... Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was made at a special Executive Council meeting, “for we are aware of the necessity to help cement the growing Afro-American solidarity,” also recognizing that “for us, as for many peoples of the Afro-Asian world, Black Power is no mere slogan. It hits...

... University, 2015. Goebel, Michael. “After Empire Must Come Na- tion?” Afro-­Asian Visions: New Perspectives on De- colonisation and the Cold War (blog). Accessed Oc- tober 10, 2016. medium.com/afro-­asian-­visions /after-­empire-­must-­come-­nation-­cd220f1977c#. Moyn, Samuel...