Introduction

Abstract

The concept, “Japan’s Black Studies,” is not at all an oddity. Far from it, it is a critical paradigm. It has a history of its own, enabled by the translations of the Black intellectual tradition in a place rarely seen as one of the centers of Afrodiasporic political and cultural formations. This anthology introduces this intellectual formation that is at once singular and vibrant to English-speaking readership. The introduction sets the context for Japan’s Black Studies’ grounding in the tradition of historical Black struggles