afro-asian crosscurrents in contemporary hip-hop

These days I have been thinking alot about the I Ching (I'll probably write about it more in a different entry) but as I was reading about the subject online I came across this article about numerous ways in which elements from Asian culture appear in hip-hop along with talking about fertile cross-fertilizations between Asian- and African-Americans.

The article is called Afro-Asian Crosscurrents in Contemporary Hip Hop by Ellie M. Hisama

Interactions between African Americans and Asian Americans are, however, multi-faceted, and involve much more than acts of bias, distrust, and violence. Vijay Prashad investigates the political and cultural connections between Blacks and Asians over five centuries, uncovering a history of anti-racist struggle fueled by activists such as Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama.2 Robin D. G. Kelley has coined the term “polycultural”—derived from the term “polyrhythmic”—to describe products of different living cultures. In contrast to multiculturalism, which “implies that cultures are fixed, discrete entities that exist side by side—a kind of zoological approach to culture,” 3 polyculturalism acknowledges the simultaneous existence of different cultural lineages in a single person. It recognizes the past and present solidarity between people of color.