The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in Jim Crow Tokyo
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-2019
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
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.
Recommended Citation
Gomez, S. (2019). The Politics of Afro-Asian Intimacies in Jim Crow Tokyo. Journal of American Ethnic History, 39(1), 35–65. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.39.1.0035
