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Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific : Imperialism's Racial Justice and its Fugitives
\"Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film, theatre, journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring empire--benevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming sexualized violence--which together comprise what Schleitwiler calls 'imperialism's racial justice.' This process could only be sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial violence that also provide the conditions for an elusive countertraining. With an innovative prose style, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific pursues the poetic and ethical challenge of reading, or learning how to read, the Black and Asian literatures that take form and flight within the fissures of imperialism's racial justice. Through startling reinterpretations of such canonical writers as James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Toshio Mori, and Carlos Bulosan, alongside considerations of unexpected figures such as the musician Robert Johnson and the playwright Eulalie Spence, Schleitwiler seeks to reactivate the radical potential of the Afro-Asian imagination through graceful meditations on its representations of failure, loss, and overwhelming violence\"--From publisher's website.
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Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Set between the rise of the U.S. and Japan as Pacific
imperial powers in the 1890s and the aftermath of the latter's
defeat in World War II, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific traces
the interrelated migrations of African Americans, Japanese
Americans, and Filipinos across U.S. domains. Offering
readings in literature, blues and jazz culture, film,theatre,
journalism, and private correspondence, Vince Schleitwiler
considers how the collective yearnings and speculative destinies of
these groups were bound together along what W.E.B. Du Bois called
the world-belting color line. The links were forged by the
paradoxical practices of race-making in an aspiring
empire-benevolent uplift through tutelage, alongside overwhelming
sexualized violence-which together comprise what Schleitwiler calls
\"imperialism's racial justice.\" This process could only be
sustained through an ongoing training of perception in an
aesthetics of racial terror, through rituals of racial and colonial
violence that also provide the conditions for an elusive
countertraining. With an innovative prose style, Strange Fruit of
the Black Pacific pursues the poetic and ethical challenge of
reading, or learning how to read, the black and Asian literatures
that take form and flight within the fissures of imperialism's
racial justice. Through startling reinterpretations of such
canonical writers as James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Toshio
Mori, and Carlos Bulosan, alongside considerations of unexpected
figures such as the musician Robert Johnson and the playwright
Eulalie Spence, Schleitwiler seeks to reactivate the radical
potential of the Afro-Asian imagination through graceful
meditations on its representations of failure, loss, and
overwhelming violence.
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Pacific connections
In the late nineteenth century the borderlands between the United States, the British Empire in Canada, and the Asia-Pacific Rim emerged as a crossroads of the Pacific world. In Pacific Connections, Kornel Chang tells the dramatic stories of the laborers, merchants, smugglers, and activists who crossed these borders into the twentieth century, and the American and British empire-builders who countered them by hardening racial and national lines. But even as settler societies attempted to control the processes of imperial integration, their project fractured under its contradictions. Migrant workers and radical activists pursued a transnational politics through the very networks that made empire possible. Charting the U.S.-Canadian borderlands from above and below, Chang reveals the messiness of imperial formation and the struggles it spawned from multiple locations and through different actors across the Pacific world. Pacific Connections is the winner of the Outstanding Book in History award from the Association for Asian American Studies and is a finalist for the John Hope Franklin Book Prize from the American Studies Association.
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Black Gold
Fred Cahir tells the story about the magnitude of Aboriginal involvement on the Victorian goldfields in the middle of the nineteenth century. The first history of Aboriginal–white interaction on the Victorian goldfields, Black Gold offers new insights on one of the great epochs in Australian and world history—the gold story. In vivid detail it describes how Aboriginal people often figured significantly in the search for gold and documents the devastating social impact of gold mining on Victorian Aboriginal communities. It reveals the complexity of their involvement from passive presence, to active discovery, to shunning the goldfields. This detailed examination of Aboriginal people on the goldfields of Victoria provides striking evidence which demonstrates that Aboriginal people participated in gold mining and interacted with non-Aboriginal people in a range of hitherto neglected ways. Running through this book are themes of Aboriginal empowerment, identity, integration, resistance, social disruption and communication.
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