Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Vince Schleitwiler
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Description for Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Hardback. "Also available as an ebook"--Title page verso. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; DQ; HBTB; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 603.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Nation of Nations
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479864690
SKU
V9781479864690
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99-1
About Vince Schleitwiler
Vince Schleitwiler is Acting Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington.
Reviews for Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific
Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific, filled with provocative insights and startling revelations on the color line at the intersecting histories of US imperialism, African American transpacific travels, the colonization of the Philippines, the Great Migration, and the Japanese Internment, is a significant contribution to the study of race and empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Schleitwiler’s book ... Read more