History of Asian Americans - Brittany Le - Christine Sivilay - Mollie Frager

Dubois: Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in l 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa l

BLACK-AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION:

BLACK INTELLECTUALS AND ACTIVISTS WERE ABLE TO LEARN FROM THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JAPAN’S REVOLT AGAINST THE WEST AND OKINAWA RESISTANCE TO THE US OCCUPATION AUTHORITY TO REVISE THE DISCUSSION OF BLACK RADICALISM AND INTERNATIONALISM. SMALL GROUP OF WOMEN OF COLOR AND MAL SUPPORTERS WERE ORGANIZING AT THE INTERSECTION OF RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY AND CAUSED AN ALTERNATIVE POLITICAL TRADITION KOKUJIN KENKYU NO KAI (ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO STUDIES) YORIKO NAKAJIMA'S EMERGENCE AS THE KEY INTERLOCUTOR WITHIN JAPAN'S BLACK STUDIES MOVEMENT J APANESE/OKINAWAN CONTRIBUTION:

BLACK INTELLECTUAL-ACTIVISTS PARTICIPATED IN THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF RACE AND POWER VIA IMAGINED SOLIDARITY WITH JAPAN. HUBERT HARRISON, CYRIL BRIGGS, ANDREA RAZAFINKERIEFO, A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH, AND MARCUS GARVEY ALL SUPPORTED ANTI- IMPERIALIST AND NATIONALIST CURRENTS WITHIN THE BLACK AMERICAN POLITICAL LIFE AND FORMED AN “UNLIKELY ALLIANCE” WITH IMPERIALIST JAPAN REGARDING SOCIAL STRUGGLES AND POLITICAL IDEAS. THEY SYNTHESIZED THESE IDEAS INTO PROSE AND POEMS. "COLORED-INTERNATIONALISM:'

“REWORK” TO DEVELOP A NEW PARADIGM OF A MOVEMENT IN A RACIAL GROOVE. RACIAL GROOVE: AIDED IN THE TRANSPACIFIC FORMATION OF THE CULTURE OF LIBERATION AND SPROUTED COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS THAT GAVE THIS CULTURE NECESSARY CATEGORICAL UNITY TO MAKE THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL STRUGGLES ANEW. GENDER AND SEXUAL POLITICS 'DUBOIS’ AFRO-ASIAN PHILOSOPHY: FORMED RACE-BASED COLLECTIVE ACTION ON AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE AGAINST ISSUES LIKE RACISM, IMPERIALISM, AND COLONIALISM BY WHITE POWERS. RACE SHOULD BE A POLITICAL CATEGORY OF STRUGGLE THAT PERTAINS TO THAT MOMENT AND SHOULD NOT BE PUSHED TOWARDS THE FUTURE: "GO ON LIVING IN THE PRESENT'