Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Kalamu ya Salaam -- The yellow and the black / Ishmael Reed -- Not just a "special issue": gender, sexuality, and post-1965 Afro Asian coalition building in the Yardbird reader and This bridge called my back / Cheryl Higashida -- Bill Cole: African American musician of the Asian double reeds / Fred Ho -- Martial arts is nothing if not cool: speculations on the intersection between martial arts and African American expressive culture / Kim Hewitt -- The American drum set: Black musicians and Chinese opera along the Mississippi river / royal hartigan with Fred Ho -- Is kung fu racist? …”