{"product_id":"transpacific-antiracism-afro-asian-solidarity-in-20th-century-black-america-japan-and-okinawa-9781479897322","title":"Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranspacific 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnishi, Yuichiro:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eYuichiro Onishi\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of African American \u0026amp; African Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50466484814098,"sku":"9781479897322","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bab0364-f6b4-4a11-b483-7b225d9e44c9.jpg?v=1730122349","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/transpacific-antiracism-afro-asian-solidarity-in-20th-century-black-america-japan-and-okinawa-9781479897322","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}