Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black American, Japan, and Okinawa

Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black American, Japan, and Okinawa - Hardcover

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Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black American, Japan, and Okinawa
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Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black American, Japan, and Okinawa - Hardcover

Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black American, Japan, and Okinawa - Hardcover

by Yuichiro Onishi
$192.60
$192.60

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by Yuichiro Onishi (Author)

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.
Number of Pages: 254
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN
Publication Date: July 01, 2013
ISBN9780814762646
Author Yuichiro Onishi
PublisherNew York University Press
GenreBiography and Education
FormatHardcover
PublishedJuly 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages254
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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