“Martial arts cinema is underrepresented in cinema history and the Black presence in martial arts cinema is even more so, which makes Price’s Black Dragon groundbreaking, significant, and overdue.…This timely, necessary volume is soundly theorized and documented. Focused on Price’s theory of ‘transcultural kinesthesia,’ the book offers perhaps the first scholarly analyses of Moses Powell, Ron van Clief, Ronald Duncan, and the Black Karate Federation. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” —K. J. Wetmore, CHOICE
“Black Dragon finally brings to light the underexamined legacy of Black/Asian American cultural history in American martial arts.” —Karen Shimakawa, author of National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage
“A richly chronicled history of the adoption and dissemination of Black martial arts in the United States.” —Shannon Steen, author of Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre