Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production : two haiku and a microphone

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Part One: Art and Performance Chapter 1: Urban Geishas: Reading Race and Gender in iROZEALb's Paintings, Crystal Anderson Chapter 2: The Theatrics of Japanese Blackface: Body as Mannequin, Nina Cornyetz Chapter 3: Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi's Art-Making as Spiritual Labor, Yuichiro Onishi and Tia-Simone Gardner Part Two: Poetry and Literature 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 Chapter 5: Richard Wright's Haiku and Modernist Poetics, Yoshinobu Hakutani Chapter 6: In the Beginning: Blackness and the 1960s Creative Nonfiction of Oe Kenzaburo, William H. Bridges IV Chapter 7: Future-Oriented Blackness in Showa Robot Culture-1924 to 1963, Anne McKnight Part Three: Sound, Song, Music Chapter 8: This Is Who I Am: Jero and the Polycultural Politics of Black Enka, Kevin Fellezs Chapter 9: Extending Diaspora: The NAACP and Up-Lift Cultures in the Interwar Black Pacific, Shana Redmond Chapter 10: Hip-Hop and Reggae in Recent Japanese Social Movements, Noriko Manabe Chapter 11: Can the Japanese Rap?, Dexter Thomas Jr. Chapter 12: Race, Ethnicity and Affective Community in Japanese Rastafari, Marvin Sterling