The Department of Asian American Studies is hosting the event "Across Regions and Oceans: New Works from AAS Faculty" on Thursday, November 7 from 1:00-2:45pm in Coffman room 325. Yuichiro Onishi, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies, will present "Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa." Kale Fajardo, Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies, will also be presenting "Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities, and Globalization."
Yuichiro Onishi is an Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies. His areas of specialization include critical race studies; Black radicalism and internationalism; African American history; and Asian American studies. He is the author of Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (forthcoming from NYU Press in June 2013). In addition, he continues to investigate the details of U.S. colonialism toward Okinawa during the early Cold War in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Some of the findings of this long-range transnational historical research will are presented in the article titled "Occupied Okinawa on the Edge," which will appear in American Quarterly (December 2012).
Kale Bantigue Fajardo is an Associate Professor of American Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His academic training is in cultural anthropology, feminist/gender/queer studies, Philippine Studies, Filipino/a American Studies and Asian American Studies. Professor Fajardo's first book, Filipino Crosscurrents: Oceanographies of Seafaring, Masculinities and Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) is an interdisciplinary ethnography that analyzes the cultural politics of Filipino migrant/maritime masculinities in the local/global shipping industry. He is currently working on a second book called Chasing Carlos: Filipino/a Travel and Migration in North America.
