Transnational Sociology Seminar Series
Shadows on the Transpacific:
Social Media,Intersectional Racism,and the Black Experience in Japan.
This talk explores the changes and continuities in black and mixed black Japanese encounters in Japan as experienced in both in-person, real world and online virtual spaces and the ways in which the discourse generated by these encounters reflect and reproduce persistent stereotypes and biases about black people as well as intersect boundaries erected against other domestic minorities perceived as outsiders in Japan
Date：Nov. 27 (Wed.) 3:15-5 pm
Venue： Mercury Tower, Room 3508 Hitotsubashi University
Language: English
Speaker: John G. Russell
John G. Russell, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Gifu University. His research focuses on representations of race and gender in Japanese and American popular culture. His current research projects explore the discourse of “blackness,” “whiteness,” and “cosmopolitan Japaneseness” in Anglophone and Japanese online spaces, transracialism, and the impact of race in the imagining and creation of robots, A.I., and other real and imagined transhuman beings. He is the author of Nihonjin no kokujin-kan [Japanese Perceptions of Blacks] (Shinhyōron, 1991), Henken to sabetsu ga dono yō ni tsukurareru ka [How are Prejudice and Discrimination Produced?] (Akashi Shoten, 1995). His most recent publications include: “Rethinking Japaneseness: Blackness, Whiteness, and the Discordant Discourse of Diversity in Japan,” in Kimiko Tanaka and Helaine Selin (eds.), Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan (Springer, 2023), and “Anaconda East: Fetishes, Phallacies, Chimbo Chauvinism and the Displaced Discourse of Black Male Sexuality in Japan,” in Tamari Kitossa (ed.), Appealing Because He Is Appalling: Black Masculinities, Colonialism, and Erotic Racism (University of Alberta Press, 2021).
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