The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical ImaginationDuring the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist intellectuals including W. E. B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian struggles against imperialism and black American