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Toward a New Parallax: Or, Japan, In Another Traversal of the Trans-Pacific

The Program in African American Studies presents
A SYMPOSIUM
on the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the journal CR: THE NEW CENTENNIAL REVIEW

TOWARD A NEW PARALLAX
Or, Japan, In Another Traversal of the Trans-Pacific

with presentations by
Annmaria Shimabuku
University of California, Riverside

Jane Yamashiro
Loyola Marymount University

Nahum Chandler
University of California, Irvine

Sonia Ryang
University of Iowa

and the showing of a gallery of images of W. E. B. DuBois in Japan and China, in the 1930s and the 1950s

Monday, June 4, 2012
12:00-2:00 pm
Humanities Gateway 1010

This symposium is convened on the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the journal CR: The New Centennial Review, on this topic. The issue includes contributions from Sonia Ryang, John G. Russell, Koya Nomura, Annmaria Shimabuku, Jane Yamashiro, and Nahum Dimitri Chandler, as well as previously unpublished writings of the 1930s on Japan and China by W. E. B. Du Bois.

Free and open to the public.
This event has been generously co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages & Literatures.