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OKADA Yasuhiro

Department / Course School of General Education Language Program

Job Language Lecturer

Academic background
	The University of ChicagoM.A.
	Michigan State University Ph.D.Ph.D.

Belonging society
～	The Japanese Association for American Studies
～	The Gender History Association of Japan

Present specialized field
U.S. History, Gender History

Research, Studies
20th-Century African American History
Race and Gender in U.S.-Japanese Relationship

Book and thesis
Papers	Gendering the “Black Pacific”: Race Consciousness, National Identity, and the Masculine/Feminine Empowerment among African Americans in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945-1952 (Sole-authored) 2008
Papers	“Cold War Black Orientalism”: Race, Gender, and African American Representations of Japanese Women during the Early 1950s The Journal of American and Canadian Studies 27 (Sole-authored) 2009
Papers	Gendering the “Black Pacific”: African Americans and the U.S. Military Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 Nanzan Review of American Studies 33 (Sole-authored) 2011
Papers	Race, Masculinity, and Military Occupation: African American Soldiers’ Encounters with the Japanese at Camp Gifu, 1947-1951 The Journal of African American History 96 (2) (Sole-authored) 2011
Papers	Negotiating Race and Womanhood across the Pacific: African American Women in Japan under U.S. Military Occupation, 1945-1952 Black Women, Gender & Families 6 (1) (Sole-authored) 2012
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Academic conference presentation
2007/10/13	Race, Manhood, Nation,　and African American Soldiers in Japan under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1952 (Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association (ASA):)
2008/03/28	Race, Manhood, Nation, and Black Military Diaspora in the Pacific: African American Soldiers’ Encounter with the Japanese under U.S. Occupation, 1945-1952 (2nd Biennial African American and African Studies Conference: The Black Scholar and the State of the Black World)
2008/10/04	Debating the Interracial Intimacies between African American GIs and Japanese Women in the Trans-Pacific Black Communities, 1950-1952 (93rd Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH))
2011/07/24	Gendering the “Black Pacific”: African Americans and the U.S. Military Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952 (名古屋アメリカ研究夏期セミナー)