Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

Author:   Yuichiro Onishi ,  Fumiko Sakashita
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
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9783030054564


Pages:   226
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies. Transpacific Correspondence introduces this intellectual tradition to English-speaking audiences, placing it in the context of a long history of Afro-Asian solidarity and affirming its commitments to transnational inquiry and cosmopolitan exchange. More than six decades in the making, Japan’s Black Studies continues to shake up commonly held knowledge of Black history, culture, and literature and build a truly globalized field of Black Studies.

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Author:   Yuichiro Onishi ,  Fumiko Sakashita
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.548kg
ISBN:  

9783030054564


ISBN 10:   303005456
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   21 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction.- Part I A Primer for Transpacific Correspondence.- 2. Studies in ""Japanese Dream"": A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought.- 3. When and Where We Entered: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan's Black Studies Scholars.- Part II Crossing Over.- 4. You're My Pin-up Girl!: The Politics of Jazz Fandom and the Making of Mary Lou Williams in the 1940s.- 5. Caribbean Haiku of Wisdom: Reading Elis Juliana's Haiku in Papiamentu Translated into English.- 6. From Localized Marxism to Americanized Sophistication and Beyond: Studies of Black History in Postwar Japan.- Part III Transpacific Black Freedom Studies.- 7. African American Women in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952.- 8. S. I. Hayakawa and the Civil Rights Era.- 9. Yoriko Nakajima and Robert F. Williams: Reasoning with the Long Civil Rights Movement Thesis."

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Each chapter of the volume has so much to offer as they reimagine the parameters of Black Studies temporally, geographically, and methodologically. A crystallization of Japan's Black Studies in the past and the present, the book will certainly be of great value to those interested in Black Studies, Japan Studies, American Studies and beyond. (Michio Arimitsu, Contemporary Japan, April 16, 2021)


“Each chapter of the volume has so much to offer as they reimagine the parameters of Black Studies temporally, geographically, and methodologically. A crystallization of Japan’s Black Studies in the past and the present, the book will certainly be of great value to those interested in Black Studies, Japan Studies, American Studies and beyond.” (Michio Arimitsu, Contemporary Japan, April 16, 2021)


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Yuichiro Onishi teaches in the Department of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (2013). Fumiko Sakashita is Associate Professor in the College of Letters at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Her work appears in Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (2013) and Gender and Lynching: Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).

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