Changes in Representations of Blackness in Japan

在4月至5月这个项目的头两个月里，我搜索并确定了在线社区的互联网网站，这些网站重点关注黑人和双重血统或混合根基的日本黑人的经历。这包括识别和收集特定YouTube频道的背景信息，如日本的黑人经历和组织网站，如日本的非裔美国人友谊协会(Jafa)、日本的黑人妇女、日本的非洲人、日本的黑人创意、Jaspora和日本遗产基金会，以及在美国警察谋杀George Floyd和全球黑人生活(BLM)运动之后出现或获得吸引力的日本网站，如Japan 4 Black Lives。随后的几个月致力于收集和分析日语和英语网站上讨论日本流行文化中种族代表性的文章。我通过Zoom参加了由阿姆斯特丹大学赞助的国际混合研讨会，题为《研究跨国流行病中的白人》(2022年12月2日)。我在该研讨会上展示了基于该项目的研究。根据对该项目获得的数据的分析，我已经完成了两篇英文论文的草稿，包括我的阿姆斯特丹大学讲习班论文的修订版，并将它们作为即将由学术出版商编辑的两本英文卷的章节提交出版。

During the first two months of the project from April to May, I searched for and identified internet sites of online communities that focus on the experiences of blacks and dual heritage, or mixed roots, black Japanese. This included identifying and collecting background information about specific YouTube channels such as The Black Experience in Japan and organizational websites such as Japan African American Friendship Association (JAFA), and Black Women in Japan, Africans in Japan, Black Creatives Japan, Jaspora, and Legacy Foundation Japan, as well as Japanese websites such as Japan 4 Black Lives that have emerged or gained traction in following the police murder of George Floyd in America and in the wake of the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.Subsequent months were devoted to the collection and analysis of articles Japanese-language and English-language internet sites in which racial representation in Japanese popular culture was discussed.I presented research based on this project at an international hybrid workshop in which I participated via Zoom entitled “Researching Whiteness in a Transnational Pandemic Workshop” sponsored by the University of Amsterdam (December 2, 2022). I have completed drafts of two English-language papers, including a revised version of my University of Amsterdam workshop paper, based on the analysis of data obtained by the project and submitted them for publication as chapters in two forthcoming edited English-language volumes from academic publishers.