Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies

Description

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xv Introduction (Yuichiro Onishi, Fumiko Sakashita)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Studies in “Japanese Dream”: A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought (Yuichiro Onishi, Fumiko Sakashita)....Pages 23-55 When and Where We Entered: Intellectual Autobiographies of Japan’s Black Studies Scholars (Fumiko Sakashita)....Pages 57-71 Front Matter ....Pages 73-73 You’re My Pin-up Girl!: The Politics of Jazz Fandom and the Making of Mary Lou Williams in the 1940s (Masayoshi Yamada)....Pages 75-91 Caribbean Haiku of Wisdom: Reading Elis Juliana’s Haiku in Papiamentu Translated into English (Yoko Mitsuishi)....Pages 93-109 From Localized Marxism to Americanized Sophistication and Beyond: Studies of Black History in Postwar Japan (Ayumu Kaneko)....Pages 111-140 Front Matter ....Pages 141-141 African American Women in Japan Under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945–1952 (Yasuhiro Okada)....Pages 143-166 S. I. Hayakawa and the Civil Rights Era (Yusuke Torii)....Pages 167-182 Yoriko Nakajima and Robert F. Williams: Reasoning with the Long Civil Rights Movement Thesis (Yuichiro Onishi)....Pages 183-202 Back Matter ....Pages 203-226