The Black Lives Matter Movement in Japan: The Past (Episode 1)

Thank you for listening to this episode of Rentaikan, the official podcast of Amnesty International Nagoya Multicultural Group (Provisional). This episode, a collaboration with Black Lives Matter Tokai, is the first in a three part series on the Black Lives Matter Movement in Japan, and will focus on the history of the Black diaspora in Japan dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries and the Samurai period. To do this, we spoke to Professor John G. Russell, a professor of anthropology in the Faculty of Regional Studies at Gifu University and author, and retired Professor Reginald Kearney, a retired academic with teaching experience in both Japan and the USA, an author who has published books concerning the mutual perceptions of both Japanese and Black communities in this country.

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Reading List
Professor Russell
△"Mindo and the Matter of Black Lives in Japan"/Asia Pacific Journal
▲Kokujin no Nihonjin Mondai (An article listed in Gendai Shiso in their upcoming Black Lives Matter issue/Japanese Only)
△ Appealing Because He Is Appalling: A Book That Professor Russell will contribute a chapter to entitled "Anaconda East: Anaconda East: Fetishes, Phallacies, Chimbo Chauvinism and the Displaced Discourse of Black Male Sexuality in Japan"

Professor Kearney
△ The Pro-Japanese Utterances of W.E.B. DuBois
▲ Educator Calls  for Better Understanding of Black History in Japan: An interview Professor Kearney had with the Japan Times journalist, Baye McNeill
△ African American views of the Japanese: solidarity or sedition? A book published by Professor Kearney in 1998