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Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa

Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Yuichiro OnishiPublish date:2014-09-22Pages:254
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479897322ISBN-10:1479897329UPC:9781479897322Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC49W9BH5Q

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York University PressISBN-13:9781479897322ISBN-10:1479897329UPC:9781479897322Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, United States, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SC49W9BH5Q
Onishi, Yuichiro: - Yuichiro Onishi is Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Publisher: New York University Press

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