During the Cold War several prominent African American radical activistintellectualsincluding W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois journalist William Worthy Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williamstraveled 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 movements against social racial and economic injustice. In The East Is Black Taj Frazier examines the ways in which these figures and the Chinese government embraced the idea of shared struggle against U.S. policies at home and abroad. He analyzes their diverse cultural output newsletters print journalism radio broadcasts political cartoons lectures and documentaries to document how they imagined communist Chinas role within a broader vision of a worldwide anticapitalist coalition against racism and imperialism.