Black transnationalism and Japan / edited by Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doan, Natalia, editor.

Konishi, Sho, 1969- editor.

Series:

Global connections (Leiden University Press) ; volume 8.

Global connections: routes and roots ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Japanese.

African Americans.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Popular culture--Japan--History--20th century.

United States--Relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--Relations--United States.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Since before the American Civil War, African American and Japanese encounters produced relationships and discourse of knowledge that transcended Eurocentric conceptions of civilization and hierarchies of personhood. <i>Black Transnationalism and Japan<i> introduces the diverse activity and intellectual movements created, shaped, and led by Japanese and African American people. While some Pan-Asianisms and Pan-Africanisms urged a uniting of colonized spaces against the colonizer, and were often expressed in the form of decolonization movements, this volume introduces various transnational phenomena that transcended such dichotomies. Black American-Japanese transnational encounters often occurred on the non-state level from within the two new competing empires of America and Japan. Such transnational encounters reveal not only heretofore hidden historical actors, friendships, and solidarities, but also innovative cultural productions that challenged hierarchies of race, culture, and imperialism.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Editors' Introduction. Black Transnationalism and Japan: Concepts and Contours

Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi

Chapter 1. Solidarity with Samurai: The Antebellum African American Press, Transnational Racial Equality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States

Natalia Doan

Chapter 2. From Peripheries to Transnational: African Americans in Japan's Identity Formation, 1872-1940

Yukiko Koshiro

Chapter 3. Playing Changes: Music as Mediator between Japanese and Black Americans

E. Taylor Atkins

Chapter 4. Interracial Friendship Across Barbed Wire: Mollie Wilson and Lillian Igasaki

Sonia C. Gomez

Chapter 5. The Transpacific Reworking of Race and Marxist Theory: The Case of Harry Haywood's Lifework

Yuichiro Onishi and Toru Shinoda

Chapter 6. My Journey into Black/Africana Studies: Knowledge Should Be Power to Unite Us

An Interview with Furukawa Tetsushi

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-006-0472-6

OCLC:

1430659371