Changes in Representations of Blackness in Japan

在项目的前两个月，从4月到5月，我搜索并确定了在线社区的互联网网站，这些网站关注黑人和双重遗产，或混合根源，日本黑人的经历。这包括识别和收集有关特定YouTube频道的背景信息，如日本黑人经验和组织网站，如日本非裔美国人友谊协会（JAFA），日本黑人妇女，日本非洲人，日本黑人创意，Jaspora和日本遗产基金会，以及日本网站，如日本4黑人生活，已经出现或获得牵引力后，警察谋杀乔治弗洛伊德在美国和全球黑人生活的问题在接下来的几个月里，我收集和分析了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。我在阿姆斯特丹大学主办的一个国际混合研讨会上发表了基于这个项目的研究，我通过Zoom参加了这个研讨会，题为“在跨国流行病研讨会中研究白人”（2022年12月2日）。 我根据对该项目所获数据的分析，完成了两份英文论文的草稿，包括我在阿姆斯特丹大学研讨会上的论文的修订稿，并将其作为章节提交学术出版社出版，作为即将出版的两本英文编辑卷。

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.