@article{1479964,
      recid = {1479964},
      author = {Onishi, Yuichiro, },
      title = {Transpacific Antiracism : Afro-Asian Solidarity in  20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Transpacific 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.This  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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479964},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814762646.001.0001},
}