Aerial Archives of Race : African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taketani, Etsuko.

Series:

Transpacific Studies

Transpacific Studies ; v.3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2026.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Opening new perspectives in transpacific studies, Etsuko Taketani examines the genealogy and contours of the aerial imaginary and the corollary shifting planetary imaginary that evolved in a transnational space she names the "Black nuclear Pacific." Following the first dropping of an atom bomb on humans and the subsequent military occupation of Japan by the United States, Black-Japanese encounters happened on a scale unimaginable before World War II. Analyzing texts by a diverse range of artists, writers, and political thinkers who had formative interactions with occupied Japan--including the NAACP's Walter White, lawyer Edith Sampson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Malcolm X--Taketani uncovers African American cultural expressions that include a quasi-alien abduction narrative, the literary creation of a new tribe in the image of a rainbow, a Black futuristic apocalypse, and a racial fantasy of the Mother Plane. Aerial Archives of Race tracks the Black networks and exchanges with Japan that provoked new ways of thinking about (human) races on planet Earth.

Contents:

Aerial mapping : Walter White, the black Pacific, occupied Japan

Prison planet : Edith S. Sampson, the alien other, race abduction

The Aerial fairy tale : Josephine Baker, the rainbow, occupation babies

The black nuclear Pacific : Langston Hughes, Hajime Kijima, Lorraine Hansberry, "all the little bombs-and the big bombs"

Futuristic remains of a found-lost nation : Malcolm X, mother planes, Japanese speculative fiction.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-520-41678-3

9780520416789

OCLC:

1548325290