Editors’ Introduction Black Transnationalism and Japan: Concepts and Contours, by Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi;
1. Solidarity with Samurai: The Antebellum African American Press, Transnational Racial Equality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States, by Natalia Doan;
2. From Peripheries to Transnational: African Americans in Japan’s Identity Formation, 1872–1940, by Yukiko Koshiro;
3. Playing Changes: Music as Mediator between Japanese and Black Americans, by E. Taylor Atkins;
4. Interracial Friendship across Barbed Wire: Mollie Wilson and Lillian Igasaki, by Sonia Gomez;
5. The Transpacific Reworking of Race and Marxist Theory: The Case of Harry Haywood’s Lifework, by Yuichiro Onishi and Toru Shinoda;
6. My Journey into Black/Africana Studies: Knowledge Should Be Power to Unite Us, an interview with Furukawa Tetsushi;
Editors’ Introduction Black Transnationalism and Japan: Concepts and Contours, by Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi;
1. Solidarity with Samurai: The Antebellum African American Press, Transnational Racial Equality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States, by Natalia Doan;
2. From Peripheries to Transnational: African Americans in Japan’s Identity Formation, 1872–1940, by Yukiko Koshiro;
3. Playing Changes: Music as Mediator between Japanese and Black Americans, by E. Taylor Atkins;
4. Interracial Friendship across Barbed Wire: Mollie Wilson and Lillian Igasaki, by Sonia Gomez;
5. The Transpacific Reworking of Race and Marxist Theory: The Case of Harry Haywood’s Lifework, by Yuichiro Onishi and Toru Shinoda;
6. My Journey into Black/Africana Studies: Knowledge Should Be Power to Unite Us, an interview with Furukawa Tetsushi;
Bibliography;
Index