![]() ![]() ![]() For further reading: Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (1955) Richard Wright. As an important precursor of the Nonaligned Movement, which was officially organized in 1961, the Bandung Conference set the stage for newly independent states to assert and strengthen their autonomy in a world often polarized by the United States and the Soviet Union. His travel writings, edited by Virginia Whatley Smith, appeared in 2001. At the conference's conclusion, as part of a “final communique,” participating countries issued their Declaration on the Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation, which advanced ten principles, ranging from “espect for fundamental human rights” to “ecognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations” to abstention from “serv the particular interests of any big powers” (Kahin 84). In this collection of essays, edited by Virginia Whatley Smith. ![]() Virginia Whatley Smith, University Press of Mississippi. ![]() A watershed moment in the history of decolonization, the meeting, also known as the Bandung Conference, drew representatives from twenty-nine newly independent Asian and African countries, including the conference's sponsors: Burma, Ceylon, India, and Indonesia. or stepping out on the town Richard Wrights Travel Writings-New Reflections. Shankar, Richard Wrights Black Power, from Richard Wrights Travel Writings: New Reflections, ed. In 1955 the famous African American writer Richard Wright traveled to Southeast Asia to observe and report on the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. ![]()
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