Afro OrientalismReveals a century of political solidarity uniting Asians and African Americans As early as 1914, in his pivotal essay The World Problem of the Color Line, W. E. B. Du Bois was charting a search for Afro Asian solidarity and for an international anticolonialism. In Afro Orientalism, Bill Mullen traces the tradition of revolutionary thought and writing developed by African American and Asian American artists and intellectuals in response to Du Boiss