• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific Volume 3

Aerial Archives of Race: African American Cultural Expressions and the Black Nuclear Pacific Volume 3

Hardcover

Series: Transpacific Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520425200
ISBN13: 9780520425200
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Dec 9 2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Opening new perspectives in transpacific studies, Etsuko Taketani examines the genealogy and contours of the aerial imaginary and the corollary shifting planetary imaginary that evolved in a transnational space she names the Black nuclear Pacific. Following the first dropping of an atom bomb on humans and the subsequent military occupation of Japan by the United States, Black-Japanese encounters happened on a scale unimaginable before World War II. Analyzing texts by a diverse range of artists, writers, and political thinkers who had formative interactions with occupied Japan--including the NAACP's Walter White, lawyer Edith Sampson, Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, and Malcolm X--Taketani uncovers African American cultural expressions that include a quasi-alien abduction narrative, the literary creation of a new tribe in the image of a rainbow, a Black futuristic apocalypse, and a racial fantasy of the Mother Plane. Aerial Archives of Race tracks the Black networks and exchanges with Japan that provoked new ways of thinking about (human) races on planet Earth.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Taketani, Etsuko

Also in

General Racism & Ethnic Studies