Black Pacific Studies - A Beginning 

                                                                  in alphabetical order

 

Warwick Anderson -

Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines

 

David Armitage and Alison Bashford -

Pacific Histories: Ocean, Land, People

 

George Baca -

Nationalism's Bloody Terrain: Racism, Class Inequality, and The Politics of Recognition

 

Beth Bailey, Beth L., and David R. Farber -

The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

 

William T. Bowers, Hammond & MacGarrigle - 

Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry Regiment in Korea. 

 

Richard Broome - 

Aboriginal Australians: A History SInce 1788

 

Brocheux & Hémery - 

Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954

 

Daniel Broudy, Peter Simpson, Makoto Arakaki - Editors - 

Under Occupation: Resistance and Struggle in a Militarised Asia-Pacific

 

Melissa J. Brown - 

Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities

 

Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper - 

Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference

 

Christopher & Rediker -

Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

 

Chun Hoong Chuan - 

The Amerasians from Vietnam: A California Study

 

Nicholas Clements - 

The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania

 

Constantino & Constantino - 

A History of the Philippines: From the Spanish Colonization to the Second World War

 

Bruce Cumings - 

The Korean War: A History 

 

Sasha Davis - 

The Empire's Edge: Militarization, Resistance, and Transcending Hegemony in the Pacific

 

Steven DeBonis -

Children of the Enemy: Oral Histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and Their Mothers

 

Frank Dikötter -

The Discourse of Race in Modern China

 

Frank Dikötter - 

The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan

 

Arthur J. Donmen - 

The Indochinese Experience of the French and the Americans: Nationalism and Communism in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam

 

Yuri W. Doolan -

 "Being Amerasian in South Korea: Purebloodness, Multiculturalism, and Living Alongside the U.S. Military Empire."   Thesis, Ohio State University

 

John Dower -

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq

 

John Dower -

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II

 

John Dower - 

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

 

Myron J. Echenberg -

Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Sénégalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960. 

 

John Eperjesi -

The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture 

 

Heinz Insu Fenkl -

Memories of My Ghost Brother

 

Christina Firpo -

"Crisis of Whiteness and Empire in Colonial Indochina: The Removal of Abandoned Eurasian Children From the Vietnamese Milieu, 1890–1956."  from Journal of Social History Volume 43 number 3 (2010), Pages 587--613

 

Robert A. Fish -

The Heiress and the Love Children: Sawada Miki and the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed-blood Orphans in Post War Japan.  Dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi., 2002

 

Norman E. Gabel -

A Racial Study of the Fijians  [1958] 

 

Marc S. Gallicchio -

The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945

 

Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. -

Smoked Yankees and the Struggle for Empire: Letters from Negro Soldiers 1898 - 1902

 

Michael Cullen Green -

Black Yanks in the Pacific: Race in the Making of American Military Empire after World War II

 

Anna Haebich - 

Broken Cirlces: Fragmenting Indigenous Families, 1800-2000

 

Walter Hamilton -

Children of the Occupation: Japan's Untold Story

 

Gerald Horne  -  

The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil War

 

Hunt & Levine - 

Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam

 

Jennifer Isaacs - 

Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History

 

Jin, Seielstad, and Xiao - 

Genetic, Linguistic and Archaeological Perspectives on Human Diversity in Southeast Asia 

 

M. Dujon Johnson -

Race and Racism in the Chinas: Chinese Racial Attitudes Toward Africans and African-Americans

 

Eleana Jean Kim -

Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging

 

Amy Kaplan & Donald Pease - 

Cultures of United States Imperialism

 

Robert Kirk - 

Paradise Past: The Transformation of the South Pacific, 1520-1920 

 

Yukiko Koshiro -

Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

 

Sarah Kovner-

Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan

 

 Paul A. Kramer -

The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, & the Philippines 

 

Christopher Lee -

Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives 

 

Williams-León & Nakashima - 

The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans

 

John Lie - 

Multiethnic Japan

 

Bernard Scott Lucious -

"In the Black Pacific: Testimonials of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements."  in Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. Ed. Wanni Wibulswasdi Anderson and Robert G. Lee

 

Jeannette Mageo - 

Cultural Memory: Reconfiguring History and Identity in the Postcolonial Pacific

 

Marable & Agard-Jones -

Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line

 

Henry Evans Maude -

Slavers in Paradise: The Peruvian Slave Trade in Polynesia, 1862-1864

 

Edith Mirante -

The Wind in the Bamboo: A Journey in Search of Asia's 'Negrito' Indigenous People

 

Katharine H.S. Moon - 

Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations 

 

Dirk Moses - 

Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History 

 

Adrian Muckle - 

Specters of Violence in a Colonial Context: New Caledonia, 1917

 

Bill Mullen -

W.E.B. Dubois on Asia: Crossing the World Color Line

 

Masako Nakamura -

Reconsidering Japanese War Brides in the 1940's U.S. History

 

Linda Newson - 

Conquest and Pestilence in the Early Spanish Philippines

 

Robert Nicole - 

Disturbing History: Resistance in Early Colonial Fiji 1874-1914 

 

Yuichiro Onishi -

Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in Twentieth-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa

 

Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Inc. -

America's Forgotten Children, the Amerasians

 

Kenneth Porter - 

'Notes on Negroes in Early Hawaii' in Journal of Negro History, Vol. 19, no. 1, January 1934

 

Rashidi &  Van Sertima  -

African Presence in Early Asia

 

Dylan Rodriguez -

Suspended Apocalypse White Supremacy, Genocide, and the Filipino Condition

 

Arnold Rubin -

Black Nanban: Africans in Japan during the Sixteenth Century

 

Jane Samson -

Imperial Benevolence: Making British Authority in the Pacific Islands

 

Miki Sawada - 

黒い肌と白い心 : サンダース・ホームへの道Kuroi Hada to Shiroi Kokoro: Sandāzu Hōmu e no Michi  

(Black Skin and White Hearts: The Road to the Saunders Home)  -  in Japanese only 

 

Setsu Shigematsu & Camacho -

Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific 

 

Noenoe Silva -

Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism

 

Saundra Sturdevant and Brenda Stoltzfus - 

Let the Good Times Roll: Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia

 

Ronald Takaki - 

Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920

 

Etsuko Taketani -

The Black Pacific Narrative: Geographic Imaginings of Race and Empire Between the World Wars

 

Toshiyuki Tanaka -

Japan's Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery and Prostitution during World War II and the US Occupation

 

Nicholas Thomas -

In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories 

 

Robert Tierney -

Tropics of Savagery: The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame

 

Susanna Trnka - 

State of Suffering: Political VIolence and Community Survival in Fiji

 

Nick Turse -

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam 

 

Miki Ward-Crawford, Hayashi, & Suenaga -

Japanese War Brides in America: An Oral History

 

William T. Wawn - 

The South Sea Islanders and the Queensland Labour Trade 

 

West, Levine, & Hiltz (editors) -

America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory

 

William Appleman Williams -

Empire as a Way of Life: An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament, Along With a Few Thoughts About Alternative 

 

Willis,  Blake, & Murphy-Shigematsu (editors) -

Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

 

Wolff, Leon, & Kramer -

Little Brown Brother: How The United States Purchased and Pacified the Philippine Islands at the Century's Turn

 

Richard Wright - 

The Color Curtain (Report on the Bandung Conference)

 

Neil Wynn -

The African American Experience During World War II

 

Ji-Yeon Yuh

Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America