Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and OkinawaPosted in Asian Diaspora, Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2015-09-19 00:58Z by Steven |
Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa
New York University Press
July 2013
254 pages
4 halftones
Hardcover ISBN: 9780814762646
Paper ISBN: 9781479897322
Yuichiro Onishi, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Japanese Sources and Names
- Introduction: Du Bois’s Challenge
- Part I: Discourses
- 1. New Negro Radicalism and Pro-Japan Provocation
- 2. W. E. B. Du Bois’s Afro-Asian Philosophy of World History
- Part II: Collectives
- 3. The Making of “Colored-Internationalism” in Postwar Japan
- 4. The Presence of (Black) Liberation in Occupied Okinawa
- Conclusion: We Who Become Together
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author