학술논문

The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in Jim Crow Tokyo.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Journal of American Ethnic History. Fall2019, Vol. 39 Issue 1, p35-65. 31p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
Subject
*AFRICAN American-Japanese relations
*INTIMACY (Psychology)
*HISTORY of marriage
*RACE & society
HISTORY of African American military personnel
ALLIED occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
RACE relations in Japan
Language
ISSN
0278-5927
Abstract
This article examines the intimate encounters between Japanese women and African American servicemen in post--World War II Japan and the ways in which these intimacies challenged American racial politics that were reproduced in Occupied Japan, while at the same time reaffirmed American heterosexual masculine power and the subordination of Japanese women. It interrogates the gendered politics of the historical conception of Afro-Asian solidarity, and contributes to studies of the Black Pacific by considering these interracial intimacies as sites of potent marriage rights discursive production in the postwar years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]