Description:
Black Transnationalism and Japan brings to light transnational encounters that challenged hierarchies of race, culture, and imperialism.
Brief description: Dr. Natalia Doan is the Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies at Wadham College and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, where she teaches the history of gender and sexuality in Japanese popular culture. She is the author of Civil War Samurai (forthcoming, OUP).
Review Quotes:
[Black Transnationalism and Japan] "emphatically makes the case for Black-Japanese encounters to inform the historiography of modern Japan. Lucidly written and employing a wide range of archival sources and approaches, it lends itself easily to teaching. With the publication of this volume, excuses can no longer be made for the exclusion of Black-Japanese relations from the curriculum."
--Meade, Ruselle