Transpacific Correspondence
Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies
Published on 21. March 2019
Book
Hardback
XV, 226 pages
978-3-030-05456-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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)
More details
Edition
2019 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen, 1 farbige Abbildung
XV, 226 p. 4 illus., 1 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-05456-4 (9783030054564)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-05457-1
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2019
1st Edition
Palgrave Macmillan
€128.39
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Persons
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).
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).
Content
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.