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Transpacific Correspondence

Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

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Editors:
  1. Yuichiro Onishi

    1. Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA

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  2. Fumiko Sakashita

    1. College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

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  • Examines Japan as an unexpected but critical site of scholarship on Black history, culture, and literature
  • Advances scholarly conversations between African America, the African diaspora, and Japan
  • Appeals to scholars of Black Studies, African American intellectual history, Afrodiasporic literature and culture, and Afro-Asian Studies

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Yuichiro Onishi, Fumiko Sakashita
    Pages 1-20

  3. A Primer for Transpacific Correspondence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Studies in “Japanese Dream”: A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought

      • Yuichiro Onishi, Fumiko Sakashita
      Pages 23-55

    3. When and Where We Entered: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan’s Black Studies Scholars

      • Fumiko Sakashita
      Pages 57-71

  5. Transpacific Black Freedom Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. African American Women in Japan Under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952

      • Yasuhiro Okada
      Pages 143-166

    3. S. I. Hayakawa and the Civil Rights Era

      • Yusuke Torii
      Pages 167-182

    4. Yoriko Nakajima and Robert F. Williams: Reasoning with the Long Civil Rights Movement Thesis

      • Yuichiro Onishi
      Pages 183-202

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 203-226
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About this book

Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies. Transpacific Correspondence introduces this intellectual tradition to English-speaking audiences, placing it in the context of a long history of Afro-Asian solidarity and affirming its commitments to transnational inquiry and cosmopolitan exchange. More than six decades in the making, Japan’s Black Studies continues to shake up commonly held knowledge of Black history, culture, and literature and build a truly globalized field of Black Studies.

Reviews

“Each chapter of the volume has so much to offer as they reimagine the parameters of Black Studies temporally, geographically, and methodologically. A crystallization of Japan’s Black Studies in the past and the present, the book will certainly be of great value to those interested in Black Studies, Japan Studies, American Studies and beyond.” (Michio Arimitsu, Contemporary Japan, April 16, 2021)

“An intellectually impressive, indeed path-breaking, contribution to global Black Studies. This unique volume is certain to stimulate conversations and inspire future projects and dialogues about the meanings and significance of Black Studies across time and international borders (place). My excitement is palpable.” (Darlene Clark Hine, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of History, Michigan State University, USA)

“Black Studies long has been a preoccupation of a wise cohort of Japanese scholars. Over the decades, African American jazz musicians have been feted and celebrated in Tokyo, for example. This informative and enriching array of articles penned by leaders in the field will be of interest to specialists and the simply curious alike. The scope of this well-written book ranges expertly from the past to the present and constitutes a major contribution to diverse fields.” (Gerald Horne, author of Facing the Rising Sun: African-Americans, Japan and the Rise of Afro-AsianSolidarity)

“A vitally important collection that charts the development and influence of Black Studies in Japan. It makes a bold intervention in the growing field of Black internationalism. This innovative volume is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the history of race, ethnicity, and migration, and the global circulation of ideas.” (Keisha N. Blain, author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom)

 

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Yuichiro Onishi

  • College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan

    Fumiko Sakashita

About the editors

Yuichiro Onishi teaches in the Department of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA. He is the author of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (2013).


Fumiko Sakashita is Associate Professor in the College of Letters at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan. Her work appears in Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (2013) and Gender and Lynching: Politics of Memory (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Transpacific Correspondence

  • Book Subtitle: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

  • Editors: Yuichiro Onishi, Fumiko Sakashita

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05457-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05456-4Published: 21 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05457-1Published: 12 March 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Intellectual Studies, African History, History of Japan, African American Culture

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