...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...

...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...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... to Black Iranians. Artists and scholars alike have featured Iranians of African ancestry in documentary work, beginning with Naser Taqvayi's films in the 1970s, and more recently with Behnaz Mirzai's Afro-Iranian Lives (2007) and The African-Baluchi Trance Dance (2012), Kamran Heidari's Dingomaro...

... 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...

...: Crafting Diplomacy in the Third World and Launching Afro-Asia in Bandung .” Cold War History 18 , no. 2 ( 2018 ): 2 – 5 . Joshi Yogesh . “ Whither Non-alignment? Indian Ocean Zone of Peace and New Delhi's Selective Alignment with the Great Powers during the Cold War, 1964–1979 .” Diplomacy...

... 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...

... Books , 2011 . Diawara Manthia . “Situation II: Richard Wright and Modern Africa.” In In Search of Africa , 59 – 76 . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1998 . Gikandi Simon . “Afro-Victorian Worlds.” In The Victorian World , edited by Hewitt Martin , 671 – 90...

... (especially the Mas- pertinent level, this work reengages with older carenes), other forms of slavery were evident in ideas of non- alignment and Afro- Asian solidar- the Indian Ocean arena. In the Atlantic world, ity not to reintroduce them as working political...

... the ladder of the UN bureaucracy to become undersecretary for special political affairs, pronounced it “the year of Africa.” Why? Over the coming months, seventeen new African states would declare their independence, join the General Assembly, and strengthen the so-called and increasingly unwieldy Afro-Asian...

... worked as the Director of the U.S. International Communication Agency in Nepal, and is at present in Brasilia. GLORIA WAITE has recently completed her Ph. D. in History from the University of California, with a specialization in African and Afro-American History...