Black Radical Thought in Japan
An Afro-Asian Intellectual History
Seiten
2026
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-75499-4 (ISBN)
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-75499-4 (ISBN)
- Noch nicht erschienen (ca. Juli 2026)
- Versandkostenfrei
- Auch auf Rechnung
- Artikel merken
A revelatory map of Afro-Asian solidarity
This groundbreaking study traces the resonances of Black radicalism in postwar Japan, charting the surprising and consequential itineraries of Afro-Asian solidarity. In Black Radical Thought in Japan, Yuichiro Onishi follows the routes through which Japanese writers, activists, and intellectuals engaged with the revolutionary Marxism of C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs; the anticolonial internationalism of Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois; and the insurgent creativity of Black Left feminists from Esther Cooper Jackson to Paule Marshall. Attunement toward their commitment to Black struggle, which they cultivated through the study and translation of Black texts, is recast as a complex strand of Black thought found in Japan.
At the heart of the story is translation, not as supplement but as method: a generative practice of refraction and reworking, often recursive and introspective, that forged solidarities across languages, geographies, and struggles. Drawing inspiration from Du Bois’s invocation of the Greek word for race, phylon, which he made in 1940 to rethink his own formulation “the problem of the color line” for the emerging new world order, Onishi names this conceptual sphere the “transpacific phylon,” a dense archive of Afro-Asian radicalism.
Essential for scholars of American studies, Japanese studies, Black intellectual history, and global Asias, Black Radical Thought in Japan is an inventive and revelatory account of freedom remade across the Pacific.
This groundbreaking study traces the resonances of Black radicalism in postwar Japan, charting the surprising and consequential itineraries of Afro-Asian solidarity. In Black Radical Thought in Japan, Yuichiro Onishi follows the routes through which Japanese writers, activists, and intellectuals engaged with the revolutionary Marxism of C. L. R. James, Raya Dunayevskaya, and Grace Lee Boggs; the anticolonial internationalism of Paul Robeson and W. E. B. Du Bois; and the insurgent creativity of Black Left feminists from Esther Cooper Jackson to Paule Marshall. Attunement toward their commitment to Black struggle, which they cultivated through the study and translation of Black texts, is recast as a complex strand of Black thought found in Japan.
At the heart of the story is translation, not as supplement but as method: a generative practice of refraction and reworking, often recursive and introspective, that forged solidarities across languages, geographies, and struggles. Drawing inspiration from Du Bois’s invocation of the Greek word for race, phylon, which he made in 1940 to rethink his own formulation “the problem of the color line” for the emerging new world order, Onishi names this conceptual sphere the “transpacific phylon,” a dense archive of Afro-Asian radicalism.
Essential for scholars of American studies, Japanese studies, Black intellectual history, and global Asias, Black Radical Thought in Japan is an inventive and revelatory account of freedom remade across the Pacific.
Yuichiro Onishi is associate professor of African American and African studies and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is author of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Seattle |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-295-75499-0 / 0295754990 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-295-75499-4 / 9780295754994 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
die Geschichte meiner Urgroßmutter
Buch | Hardcover (2025)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
CHF 32,15
