Yuichiro Onishi

Publications

• Onishi, Yuichiro, Toru Shinoda. "The Transpacific Reworking of Race and Marxist Theory: The Case of Harry Haywood’s Lifework." Black Transnationalism and Japan (2024): 135-156.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "A Politics of Our Time: Reworking Afro-Asian Solidarity in the Wake of George Floyd's Killing [with a new introduction]." Power of Our Stories Won't Stop: Intergenerational Truth-Telling as Civic Democratic Practice (2023): 80-98.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "A View from Beale Street." Modern American History 3 (2020): 99-102.
• Onishi, Yuichiro, Toru Shinoda. "The Paradigm of Refusal: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Transpacific Political Imagination in the 1930s." Citizen of the World: The Late Career and Legacy of W. E. B. Du Bois (2019): 13-35.
• Onishi, Yuichiro, Fumiko Sakashita. Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Onishi, Yuichiro, Fumiko Sakashita. "Introduction." Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies (2019): 1-20.
• Onishi, Yuichiro, Fumiko Sakashita. "Studies in ‘Japanese Dream’: A Transpacific Inquiry into Afrodiasporic Feminist Thought." Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies (2019): 23-55.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "Yoriko Nakajima and Robert F. Williams: Reasoning with the Long Movement Thesis." Transpacific Correspondence: Dispatches from Japan’s Black Studies (2019): 183-202.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "Gerald Horne's Japan." Black Perspectives (June 2017).
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "Afro-Asian Solidarity Through Time and Space: Roads Taken and Not Taken." Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies (2017): 342-354.
• Onishi, Yuichiro, Tia-Simone Gardner. "Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi’s Art-Making as Spiritual Labor." Two Haiku and a Microphone: Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production (2015): 57-75.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Cross-Racial Solidarity with Japan [reprint with a new introduction]." Escape from New York: The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem (2013).
• Onishi, Yuichiro. Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa. NYU Press, 2013.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "Occupied Okinawa on the Edge: On Being Okinawan in Hawai'i and U.S. Colonialism toward Okinawa." American Quarterly 64 (December 2012): 741-766.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "The Presence of (Black) Liberation in Okinawan Freedom: Transnational Moments, 1968-1972." Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People (2009): 178-202.
• Onishi, Yuichiro. "The New Negro of the Pacific: How African Americans Forged Cross-Racial Solidarity with Japan, 1917-1922." The Journal of African American History 92:2 (2007): 191-213.

Activities

Awards

• Institute for Advanced Study Collaborative Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN, 2017 - 2019
• UMN College of Liberal Arts Talle Faculty Research Award, 2017 - 2019
• American Studies Association Community Partnership Grant, 2015 - 2016
• College of Liberal Arts "Red" Motley Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 2015 - 2016
• Insitute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Spring 2010
• Mentor Recognition Award, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York, May 2006

Courses

• Social and Intellectual Movements in the African Diaspora (AFRO 3120/5120)
• Comparative Race and Ethnicity in U.S. History (AAS/HIST 3875W)
• Ways of Knowing in Africa and the African Diaspora (AFRO 4105)
• War and Empire: Asian American Perspectives (AAS 3601W)