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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Onishi, Yuichiro,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 4 black and white illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Japanese Sources and Names -- Introduction -- PART I: DISCOURSES -- 1 New Negro Radicalism and Pro-Japan Provocation -- 2 W. E. B. Du Bois’s Afro-Asian Philosophy of World History -- PART II: COLLECTIVES -- 3 The Making of “Colored-Internationalism” in Postwar Japan -- 4 The Presence of (Black) Liberation in Occupied Okinawa -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author