Date of Award
May 2014
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
African American Studies
Advisor(s)
Herbert Ruffin
Keywords
Activism, Asian American Movement, Berkeley, Black Power, Third World
Subject Categories
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Abstract
The San Francisco Bay Area emerged as radical space for student and youth driven activism during the 1960s. The area was the birthplace of Ethnic studies and a key organization of the Black Power era--the Black Panther Party. This work uncovers the shared activist centered relationship between African Americans and Asian Americans by interrogating how members of the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) and the Black Panther Party (BPP) worked within the frameworks of grassroots and collective activism to address local and Third World liberation. Furthermore, this work seeks to bring forth and provide a space for the suppressed voices of women within the BPP and APPA, as it is through their narratives that collective activism between African Americans and Asian Americans is illustrated.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Hope, Jeanelle Kevina, "Black, Yellow, and Shades of Purple: Radical Afro-Asian Collective Activism in the San Francisco Bay Area From the Perspectives of Women in the Struggle, 1966-1972" (2014). Theses - ALL. 48.
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/48
