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Transpacific Antiracism - Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (Paperback)
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Transpacific Antiracism - Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (Paperback)
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"In this exhaustively-researched and beautifully-written book,
Onishi uncovers a hidden history of Afro-Asian radicalism and
internationalism. He presents bold and generative arguments about
the ways in which the affiliation of kindred spirits across the
Pacific enabled anti-racist intellectuals and activists from Japan
and the U.S. to forge a new philosophy of world history and
formulate practical programs for liberation." --George Lipsitz,
author of How Racism Takes Place "This fascinating and
ground-breaking book offers a new window into the vital history of
Afro-Asian solidarity against empire and white supremacy.
Meticulously researched, it recovers the epistemological
breakthroughs that emerged at the intersection of radical struggle
and geographical reorientation. Through his sharp analysis of
cross-cultural and transnational collectivity, Onishi provides a
guidepost for all those interested in the study of utopian,
boundary-crossing projects of the past, as well as the creation of
future ones." -- Scott Kurashige, author of The Shifting Grounds of
Race and co-author of The Next American Revolution 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.
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