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Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

New York University Press<\/a>
\nJuly 2013
\n254 pages
\n4 halftones
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780814762646
\nPaper ISBN: 9781479897322<\/p>\n

Yuichiro Onishi<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies
\nUniversity of Minnesota, Twin Cities<\/em><\/p>\n

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Transpacific Antiracism<\/em> introduces the dynamic process out of which social movements in Black America, Japan<\/a>, and Okinawa<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

This book explores the work of Black intellectual-activists of the first half of the twentieth century, including Hubert Harrison<\/a> and W. E. B. Du Bois<\/a>, 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<\/a> which brought together local activists, peace activists, and antiracist and antiwar GIs<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n