American Studies as Transnational Practice by Shu Yuan; Pease Donald E.;

American Studies as Transnational Practice by Shu Yuan; Pease Donald E.;

Author:Shu, Yuan; Pease, Donald E.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press


Notes

This chapter previously appeared in Etsuko Taketani’s The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire between the World Wars, published in 2014 by Dartmouth College Press. The chapter epigraph is from Henry L. Stimson, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948).

1. Greil Marcus, The Manchurian Candidate (London: British Film Institute, 2002), 62; John Frankenheimer, dir., The Manchurian Candidate (1962; Century City, CA: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2002), DVD.

2. The state established in Manchuria was also spelled Manchoukuo.

3. Victor Shiu Chiang Cheng, “Imagining China’s Madrid in Manchuria: The Communist Military Strategy at the Onset of the Chinese Civil War, 1945–1946,” Modern China 31, no. 1 (2005): 77, 94, 103.

4. John K. Fairbank, “Born Too Late,” in Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor”: Multiple Takes, ed. Bruce H. Sklarew et al. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998), 203; Bernardo Bertolucci, dir., The Last Emperor (1987; Tokyo: Tohokushinsha Film Corporation, 2008), DVD.

5. As Arnold Rampersad observes, “Two concerns dominated [Du Bois’s] analyses of international events in the 1930s and 1940s: the success of socialism, objectified in the fate of the USSR, and the rise of the darker races out of colonialism or, in the case of Japan, to the height of international power” (Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W. E. B. Du Bois [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976], 225). In the phrasing of Francis L. Broderick, Du Bois’s assessments of world powers were based on two criteria—“their sympathy for colored colonial peoples and their aversion to capitalism”—which resulted in his championing of Soviet Russia and Japan (Broderick, W. E. B. DuBois: Negro Leader in a Time of Crisis [Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1959], 196).

6. Gerald Horne, Race War: White Supremacy and the Japanese Attack on the British Empire (New York: New York University Press, 2004), 110.

7. Bill V. Mullen, Afro-Orientalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), xvii, xxxvii, xxxviii.

8. While Du Bois’s novel Dark Princess (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1928) is a prime example of “Afro-Orientalism” that stresses Afro-Asian solidarity, I am interested in rethinking black internationalism by linking it less to ideology and more to travel.

9. W. E. B. Du Bois, “As the Crow Flies,” Crisis 41 (April 1934): 93. El Salvador was the first country in the Americas to recognize Manchukuo diplomatically, and the Dominican Republic also extended recognition.

10. See, for instance, Mullen, Afro-Orientalism; and Yuichiro Onishi, Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa (New York: New York University Press, 2013).

11. David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), 392, 419.

12. Report, Atlanta, Georgia, November 12, 1942, 1, William E. B. Du Bois, FBI file 100–99729; Kenneth O’Reilly, Black Americans: The FBI Files, ed. David Gallen (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1994), 83.

13. Report, New York City, May 1, 1942, 1, FBI file 100–99729.

14. Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois, 390–91, 392.

15. See Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey (New York: Hill and Wang, 1993), chapter 6.



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