Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa Contributor(s): Onishi, Yuichiro (Author) |
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ISBN: 1479897329 ISBN-13: 9781479897322 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2014 |
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BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - History | United States - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
Dewey: 305.896 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.75 lbs) 254 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
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Publisher Description: Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan, and Okinawa formed Afro-Asian solidarities against the practice of white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yuichiro Onishi argues that in the context of forging Afro-Asian solidarities, race emerged as a political category of struggle with a distinct moral quality and vitality. This book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century, including Hubert Harrison and W. E. B. Du Bois, that took a pro-Japan stance to articulate the connection between local and global dimensions of antiracism. Turning to two places rarely seen as a part of the Black experience, Japan and Okinawa, the book also presents the accounts of a group of Japanese scholars shaping the Black studies movement in post-surrender Japan and multiracial coalition-building in U.S.-occupied Okinawa during the height of the Vietnam War which brought together local activists, peace activists, and antiracist and antiwar GIs. Together these cases of Afro-Asian solidarity make known political discourses and projects that reworked the concept of race to become a wellspring of aspiration for a new society. |
Contributor Bio(s): Onishi, Yuichiro: - Yuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. |