Title: Transpacific antiracism : Afro-Asian solidarity in Twentieth-century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa /
Authors: Onishi, Yuichiro.
Year: 2013
Subjects: Du Bois, W. E. B. Political and social views.; African Americans Race identity History; African Americans Relations with Japanese History; African Americans Foreign public opinion, Japanese.; Anti-racism United States History; Anti-racism Japan History; African Americans Study and teaching Japan History; Okinawa-shi (Japan) Race relations History
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Introduction : Du Bois's challenge -- New Negro radicalism and pro-Japan provocation -- W.E.B. Du Bois's Afro-Asian philosophy of world history -- The making of "colored-internationalism" in postwar Japan -- The presence of (black) liberation in occupied Okinawa -- Conclusion : we who become together.