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African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition?
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African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition? Hardback - 1998

by Reginald Kearney

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The first comprehensive chronicle of the events shaping African Americans' views about Japan and the Japanese.

African American Views of the Japanese reveals a page of history long ignored. In black America, Japanese were not always known for racist remarks, Sambo images, and discriminatory hiring practices. Once, thousands of African Americans thought of the Japanese as "champions of the darker races." Ordinary urban ghetto dwellers, share-croppers, and tenant farmers looked to the Land of the Rising Sun for salvation. Some of the greatest leaders in the fight for equal rights and greater freedoms-such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Monroe Trotter, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells Barnett, George Schuyler, A. Philip Randolph, and James Weldon Johnson-saw allies in the struggle for equality. The Afro-centric Marcus Garvey shared his stage with the Japanese. In his teachings, Elijah Muhammad taught that the original black man was Asian and acknowledged Japan's role as leader.

Here Reginald Kearney examines the role played by Japan and its people in the dreams of prosperity for many African Americans. He also uncovers the shock many blacks felt upon learning that this high regard for the Japanese had been betrayed by discriminatory remarks and actions. But overall Kearney remains optimistic that the African American-Japanese rift can be mended.

Details

  • Title African American Views of the Japanese: Solidarity or Sedition?
  • Author Reginald Kearney
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 201
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date 1998-09
  • ISBN 9780791439111 / 0791439119
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97044963
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

About the author

Reginald Kearney is Visiting Professor at Clark Atlanta University. He is the author of Nijuuseiki no Nihonjin: Amerika Kokujin no Nihonjinkan (The twentieth century Japanese: African American views of the Japanese), 1900-1945 (translated by Shin Yamanoto) and Reconcilable Differences: Issues in African American-Japanese Relations.

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