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Department of African American & African Studies
810 Social Science Building
267 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9847
E-mail: afroam@umn.edu

Yuichiro Onishi

612-624-9847
African-American and African Studies 808 SocSci

Specialties

  • Black radicalism and internationalism
  • African American history
  • Critical Race Studies
  • Asian American Studies

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: History, University of Minnesota, 2004.
  • M.A.: History, University of Minnesota, 1999.
  • B.A.: History, Macalester College, 1995.

Publications

  • 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. Link
  • Onishi, Yuichiro. "Afro-Asian Solidarities and the ‘Circle of Culture’." XCP: Cross-Cultural Poetics 20 (2008): 97-101.
  • 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. Download
  • Onishi, Yuichiro. "Diaspora." XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 15/16 (2006): 201.

Research Activities

  • Transpacific Racial Strivings: How Black Americans, the Japanese, and Okinawans Found Solidarities: Book manuscript

Professional Activities

  • Visiting Assistant Professor: Open Education Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan , June 2009

Awards

  • Insitute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Spring 2010
  • Multicultural Teaching and Learning Fellowship, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2009
  • President’s Faculty Multicultural Research Award, Office of Equity and Diversity, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2009
  • Faculty Fellowship Publications Program, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, Spring 2007
  • Mentor Recognition Award, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York, May 2006
  • Professional Staff Congress & The City University of New York Research Award, 2005 - 2006
  • MacArthur International Predissertation Fieldwork Grant, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, University of Minnesota, Summer 2000

Courses Taught

  • Racial Formation and Transformation in the U.S. (AFRO/AMIN/AAS/CHIC 1201)
  • Black Worlds in Global Perspectives: Challenges and Changes (AFRO 1012)
  • Contemporary Perspectives on Asian America (AAS 3001)
  • Freshmen Seminar—Immigrant Acts: Transforming Asian America (AAS 1902)
  • Black Internationalism (AFRO 3910)
  • War and Imperialism in Asian America (AAS 4920/5920)
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