Bringing the Marginalized into Conversations about American Raciality - Erin Kane - Keely Gaeta - Emily Norris

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Yoriko Nakajima

Yokiro Nakajima was a key player in Japan's Black studies movement in postwar Japan. Nakajima's origins in this crucial movement took place while a graduate student of political science at the University of Michigan. As a young scholar, Nakajima became more and more in resistance of white domination through colonialism, imperialism, and JimCrow, causing her to aid in the formation of Kokujin Kenkyu no Kai (Association of Black Studies). The founders of the organization had a realization -- Japanese under U.S. military control had something in common with African Americans: both groups were victims of American capitalism, imperialism, and racism.

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