Transpacific Correspondence Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies
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 solidar
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Edited by Yuichiro Onishi Fumiko Sakashita
Transpacific Correspondence
Yuichiro Onishi • Fumiko Sakashita Editors
Transpacific Correspondence Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies
Editors Yuichiro Onishi Department of African American & African Studies University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN, USA
Fumiko Sakashita College of Letters Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan
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Foreword
A Collaborative Journey: Transpacific Black Studies Scholars from Japan have a decades-long history of engaging the field of Black Studies. The postwar occupation of the country by the U.S. military led to encounters with African Americans, usually for the first time on both sides. Part of the response of Japanese scholars was to create, in 1954, the Japan Black Studies Association (JBSA), with a primary focus on history and literature, but also including academics in the social sciences and the arts. The initial purpose was, in part, for a society that defined itself as monocultural to better understand one that was largely defined by its ethnic and racial diversity and the tensions related to that diversity. This cultural engagement has been facilitated by a two-way institutional collaboration, and I was one of the African American literature scholars based in the United States that entered this traffic. For
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