{"product_id":"aerial-archives-of-race-african-american-cultural-expressions-and-the-black-nuclear-pacific-volume-3-9780520416772","title":"Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific Volume 3","description":"\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Opening new perspectives in transpacific studies, Etsuko Taketani examines the genealogy and contours of the aerial imaginary and the corollary shifting planetary imaginary that evolved in a transnational space she names the \"Black nuclear Pacific.\" Following the first dropping of an atom bomb on humans and the subsequent military occupation of Japan by the United States, Black-Japanese encounters happened on a scale unimaginable before World War II. Analyzing texts by a diverse range of artists, writers, and political thinkers who had formative interactions with occupied Japan--including the NAACP's Walter White, lawyer Edith Sampson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Malcolm X--Taketani uncovers African American cultural expressions that include a quasi-alien abduction narrative, the literary creation of a new tribe in the image of a rainbow, a Black futuristic apocalypse, and a racial fantasy of the Mother Plane. \u003ci\u003eAerial Archives of Race\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the Black networks and exchanges with Japan that provoked new ways of thinking about (human) races on planet Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEtsuko Taketani\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of American Literature at the University of Tsukuba, Japan.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967035998482,"sku":"9780520416772","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9c1d325-6a2a-4426-aa50-14c17860894c.jpg?v=1768921843","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/aerial-archives-of-race-african-american-cultural-expressions-and-the-black-nuclear-pacific-volume-3-9780520416772","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}