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<span><span>This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. </span></span>

<span><span>Part One: Art and Performance</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter</span><span> </span><span>1: Urban Geishas: Reading Race and Gender in iROZEALb’s Paintings, Crystal Anderson</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 2: The Theatrics of Japanese Blackface: Body as Mannequin, Nina Cornyetz</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 3: Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi’s Art-Making as Spiritual Labor, Yuichiro Onishi and Tia-Simone Gardner</span></span>
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<span><span>Part Two: Poetry and Literature</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 4: Playing the Dozens on Zen: Amiri Baraka’s Journey from a “Pre-Black” Bohemian Outsider to a “Post-American Low Coup” Poet, Michio Arimitsu</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 5: Richard Wright’s Haiku and Modernist Poetics, Yoshinobu Hakutani </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 6: In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of Ôe Kenzaburô, William H. Bridges IV</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 7: Future-Oriented Blackness in Shōwa Robot Culture—1924 to 1963, Anne McKnight</span></span>
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<span><span>Part Three: Sound, Song, Music</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 8: “This Is Who I Am”: Jero and the Polycultural Politics of Black </span><span>Enka</span><span>, Kevin Fellezs</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 9: Extending Diaspora: The NAACP and Up-“Lift” Cultures in the Interwar Black Pacific, Shana Redmond </span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 10: Hip-Hop and Reggae in Recent Japanese Social Movements, Noriko Manabe</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 11: Can the Japanese Rap?, Dexter Thomas Jr.</span></span>
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<span><span>Chapter 12: Race, Ethnicity and Affective Community in Japanese Rastafari, Marvin Sterling</span></span>

<span><span>This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the texts transfigure both the texts and themselves.</span></span>
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<span><span>William H. Bridges</span><span> is assistant professor of Japanese and Asian studies at St. Olaf College. <br>Nina Cornyetz is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Gallatin School for Individualized Study, New York University.</span></span>
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