From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of interaction with African American movements for equal rights. Please join Ohio State University’s Melvin Barnes Jr. and Princeton University’s James Watson-Krips as they discuss Barnes’ research on the history of Chinese-African American interactions from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/index.php/historytalk/china-and-black-liberation-struggle-america

Special thanks to:

Melvin Barnes, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Ohio State University and James Watson-Krips, PhD Student, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University.

Sponsored by:

The Institute for Chinese Studies, Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, Department of History

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Audio production by Paul Kotheimer,

College of Arts & Sciences Academic Technology Services.