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黒人研究の会・第 61 回全国大会
2015年6月27日（土）−28日（日）
キャンパスプラザ京都（JR京都駅前、徒歩5分）
〒600-8216 京都市下京区西洞院通塩小路下る東塩小路町939
http://www.consortium.or.jp/about-cp-kyoto/access
大会テーマ：アメリカ合衆国の奴隷制廃止150周年
――奴隷制から現在までを考える――
The 61st Annual Conference of
Japan Black Studies Association
(JBSA)
(established in 1954)
June 27 (Sat.) & 28 (Sun.), 2015
Campus Plaza Kyoto
Nishino-Toin-dori Shiokoji Sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8216 Japan
Phone：＋81-75-353-9100 http://www.consortium.or.jp/about-cp-kyoto/access
*Just a few minutes walk to the west from the JR Kyoto Station Central/North Exit
Conference Theme:
150 Years after the End of Slavery in the United States:
From Slavery to the Present
*All programs including reception at this year s conference, except Session 1 & 2 and the symposium
(2nd day morning), will be conducted in English.
*Registration Fee (for handouts): 500 yen ／ 参加費（資料費）：500円
1／1 日目
Day
Saturday, June
27
＊Place: Main Hall (2nd floor) ／ 会場：ホール（2階）
Registration: 9:20 ∼ （Reception desk on the 2nd floor）
受付開始： 9:20 ∼ （受付デスク2階）
9:50−11:35
Session 1 (Individual Papers in Japanese) 第1セッション（自由研究発表・日本語）
＊各発表20分、質疑応答15分
司会：君塚 淳一（
城大学）
(Chair: KIMIZUKA Junichi, Ibaraki University)
１．黒人政治代表の射程と手段―黒人政治の一つの分析枠組みとして
阿津坂 祐貴（同志社大学・院）
( Scopes and Means of Black Political Representation:
An Analytical Framework of Black Politics
ATSUSAKA Yuki, Doshisha University)
２．ジャマイカ、スキン・ブリーチング実践者たちの共同性について
神本 秀爾（大阪物療大学）
( Communality of Skin Bleachers in Jamaica
KAMIMOTO Shuji, Butsuryo College of Osaka)
３．Shakespeare 作品のツワナ語翻訳を巡る政治学
―Sol Plaatje の Diphosho-phosho(1930) の場合
溝口 昭子（東京女子大学）
( Politics of Translating Shakespeare into Setswana:
In the Case of Sol Plaatje s Diphosho-phosho (1930)
MIZOGUCHI Akiko, Tokyo Woman s Christian University)
11:45−12:55
Session 2 (Individual Papers in Japanese)
第２セッション（自由研究発表・日本語）
＊各発表20分、質疑応答15分
司会： 平尾 吉直（首都大学東京・講）
(Chair: HIRAO Yoshinao, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
１．パリにおけるアフロモダニズムへのポーレット・ナルダルの貢献とジャズ批判
丸山 峻一（オハイオ州立大学・院）
( Paulette Nardal s Contributions to Afromodernism in Paris and Her Criticisms of Jazz
MARUYAMA Shunichi, The Ohio State University, USA)
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２．Negro
Spiritual に見る黒人性
山本 愛（日本大学・講／ゴスペルシンガー）
( Negritude of Negro Spiritual
YAMAMOTO Ai , Nihon University / Gospel singer)
12:55−14:00 Lunch Break ／昼休み
14:00−14:20
Opening and Welcome Address
FURUKAWA Tetsushi (Conference Chair, Vice President of JBSA, Otani University)
（古川 哲史、61 回大会実行委員長、黒人研究の会副代表、大谷大学）
Presidential Speech
KATO Tsunehiko (President of JBSA, Prof. Emeritus of Ritsumeikan University)
（加藤 恒彦、黒人研究の会代表、立命館大学名誉教授）
14:30−17:50
Special Feature:
Thomas Allen Harris: His Film Screening and Talk
(トマス・アレン・ハリス監督の映画上映とトーク)
Chair: NISHIMOTO Azusa (Vice President of JBSA, Aoyama Gakuin University)
（司会：西本あづさ、黒人研究の会副代表、青山学院大学）
１．Introduction
NISHIMOTO Azusa
２．Film
Screening: Through a Lens Darkly:
Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People（2014）
３．Special Talk:
The Book of the Family Tree
(Followed by Q & A session)
Thomas Allen Harris
19:00−20:30
Reception（懇親会）
Place: Mielparque Kyoto ／メルパルク京都 (京都駅北東すぐ)
(10 minutes walk to the east from Campus Plaza Kyoto.
Next to JR Kyoto Station. http://www.mielparque.jp/kyoto/ )
*6000 yen for JBSA regular members and 4000 yen for students.
*6000円（一般会員）、4000円（学生）
Presided by YAMAMOTO Naoko
（山本 直子、龍谷大学）
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2／2 日目
Day
Sunday, June
28
＊Place: Lecture Room 4 (4th floor) ／ 会場：第4講義室（4階）
Registration: 9:30 ∼ （Reception desk on the 4th floor）
受付開始： 9:30 ∼ （受付デスク4階）
10:00−12:15
Symposium (in Japanese) ／シンポジウム（日本語）
〈シンポジウム：アメリカ合衆国の奴隷制廃止150周年〉
（Symposium: 150 Years after the End of Slavery in the United States）
司会：坂下 史子（立命館大学）
Chair: SAKASHITA Fumiko (RitsumeikanUniversity)
＊発表各20分
１．アメリカ南部奴隷制崩壊：真実の瞬間
加藤（磯野）順子（日本大学・講）
( The Disintegration of Slavery in American South As A Moment of Truth
KATO Isono Junko, Nihon University)
２．奴隷体験記から自伝へ―フレデリック・ダグラスにおける語りの自由
朴珣英（金城学院大学）
( From Slave Narrative to Autobiography: Frederick Douglass s
Self-Emancipation in Authorship PARK Soon Young, Kinjo Gakuin University)
３．暴力的依存関係下での歌―生存を支える美意識
ウェルズ 恵子（立命館大学）
( Song Lyrics Created in Slavery Situations and Esthetics that Sustain the Oppressed
WELLS Keiko, Ritsumeikan University)
コメント（15 分）：岩本 裕子（浦和大学）
(Respondent: IWAMOTO Hiroko, Urawa University)
休憩
/ Break（10 分）
質疑応答
/ Questions and Answers（50 分）
12：15−13：10 Lunch Break ／ 昼休み
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13：10−14：00 JBSA Membership Business Meeting (in Japanese)／総会
14:10−15:55 Session 3 (English) ／ 第3セッション（英語）
＊20
１．Black
minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q &A
Canada: We are rooted here
Rahab Njeri
(University of Trier, Germany)
２． Love
and Flames Legacies of Black Queer Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle
Che Gossett
(Barnard Center for Research on Women, USA)
３．Theorizing
African Diaspora Womanism
(Independent of European Diaspora Feminism)
Dorothy Jane Randall Tsuruta
(San Francisco State University, USA)
Chair: HAGIWARA Hiroko (Osaka Prefecture University)
（司会：萩原 弘子、大阪府立大学）
16:05−17:15 Session 4 (English) ／ 第４セッション（英語）
＊20
１．
minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for Q &A
So you see...we all have problems : African American Comedy on LP Record
David Hopkins (Tenri University, Japan)
２．The
Gentle Black Giants Revisited―They Came Before the Babe
Gaynell Theodore Catherine (IOKTS Productions, USA)
Chair: KIUCHI Toru (Nihon University)
（司会：木内 徹、日本大学）
17:25
Closing Remarks
YAMAMOTO Shin (Vice President of JBSA, Yokkaichi University)
（山本 伸、黒人研究の会副代表、四日市大学）
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The 61st Annual Conference of the JBSA
presents
Thomas Allen Harris: His Film Screening and Talk
(トマス・アレン・ハリス監督の映画上映とトーク)
Biography:
Thomas Allen Harris is the founder and President Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity,
family, and spirituality. Chimpanzee s innovative and award-winning films have received critical acclaim at
international film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, and Cape Town; have
been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New
Zealand Television; and exhibited at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Melbourne Arts Festival and
MoMA. Mr. Harris newly released film, Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of
a People, won the Fund for Santa Barbara 2014 Social Justice Award and a Best Diasporic Documentary
Award from the Africa Movie Academy Awards in Nigeria. Called Wise and Passionate by the New York
Times and Extraordinary by Time magazine, Through A Lens Darkly is presently opening in theaters
across the country, accompanied by its transmedia community engagement project Digital Diaspora
Family Reunion (1world1family.me), an interactive forum that combines film, photography, social media
and oral histories in a live touring event. Since 2009, Digital Diaspora has held 18 Roadshows in 9-cities,
and received in excess of 10 million media impressions.
Harris is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Tribeca Film Institute s Nelson Mandela
Award, and United States Artist, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller Fellowships. A graduate of Harvard College
with a degree in Biology, Mr. Harris has taught as an Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University
of California San Diego and a Visiting Artist at the International Center of Photography. A published
photographer, curator, and writer, Mr. Harris lectures widely on the use of media as a tool for social change.
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Filmography: Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People,
HD & Super 8-mm film, 92 minutes, 2014
Digital Diaspora Family Reunion Roadshow (DDFR.tv),
HD Web Series 2009 – Present
Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness,
HD, 17 minutes, 2011
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, 73 minutes, 2005
É Minha Cara/That s My Face, super 8mm, 56 minutes, 2001
AFRO (is just a hairstyle): Notes on a journey through the African Diaspora,
Video Installation - Long Beach Museum of Art, 1999, remounted 2011
Blue Baby, video, 14 minutes, 1999
Alchemy, DVD Installation - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC & New Langton Arts
Encounter at Intergalactic Café, video, 17 minutes. 1996.
VINTAGE • Families of Value, 16mm, 72 minutes, 1995
All In the Family, video, 10 minutes, 1994
Math, Science & Community, 15 minutes, 1994
Heaven, Earth & Hell, video, 26 minutes, 1993
Black body, video, 5 minutes, 1992
Splash, 16mm, 7 minutes, 1991
CRISIS: WHO WILL DO SCIENCE, 28 minutes, 1989
65-C Codman Park, 20 minutes, 1988
THROUGH A LENS DARKLY:
BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND
THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE
is a documentary about how African
American communities have used
the camera as a tool for social change
from the invention of photography
to the present. This epic tale poetically moves between the present and
the past, through contemporary
photographers and artists whose
images and stories seek to reconcile
legacies of pride and shame while
giving voice to images long suppressed, forgotten, and hidden from
sight.
Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People
(HD & Super 8-mm film, 92 minutes, 2014)
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Paper Abstract ／ 発表要旨
Session 1 (Individual Papers in Japanese) ／第1セッション（自由研究発表・日本語） １．黒人政治代表の射程と手段―黒人政治の一つの分析枠組みとして
阿津坂 祐貴（同志社大学・院）
(Scopes and Means of Black Political Representation: An Analytical Framework of Black Politics
／ ATSUSAKA Yuki, Graduate Student, Doshisha University)
本報告の目的は、黒人政治の分析枠組みとして、「黒人政治代表」の概念を提示することである。特に、本報告
では、黒人政治代表をその「射程」と「手段」という視点から読み解き、それぞれの複合性を指摘する。本報告
は、射程の説明に、黒人政治を経済、政治、文化の領域に区分する「植民地モデル」、同様にこれを経済的再配
分と文化的承認の次元に区分する「パースペクティヴ的二元論」を援用し、手段の説明に、描写的代表、象徴的
代表、実質的代表を提案するハンナ・ピトキンの代表制民主主義論を用いる。
２．ジャマイカ、スキン・ブリーチング実践者たちの共同性について
神本 秀爾（大阪物療大学）
(Communality of Skin Bleachers in Jamaica
Shuji, Butsuryo College of Osaka)
／ KAMIMOTO
ジャマイカのスキン・ブリーチングにまつわる研究において、実践者たちは、個性をはぎ取られた、均質的な
存在として論じられ、実践の動機は植民地支配に端を発する自己嫌悪というマクロな視点に回収される傾向が
ある。しかし、実践者たちの生や脱色される肌は、あくまで個別性を帯びたものであることを踏まえ、本発表で
は、実践をめぐるミクロな局面に焦点を当てる。具体的には、彼／女らの間での情報や語り、経験の共有を通じ
て、彼らのあいだで生起する共同性のあり方について検討を加える。
３．Shakespeare 作品のツワナ語翻訳を巡る政治学
―Sol Plaatje の Diphosho-phosho(1930) の場合
溝口 昭子（東京女子大学）
(Politics of Translating Shakespeare into Setswana: In the Case of Sol Plaatje s Diphosho-phosho (1930)
／ MIZOGUCHI Akiko, Tokyo Woman s Christian University)
南アフリカの著名な作家、政治家、翻訳家Sol PlaatjeはShakespeareの喜劇The Comedy of Errorsを母語であるツ
ワナ語に翻訳しDiphosho-phosho (Mistakes upon Mistakes)として、南アフリカで刊行している。当時、綴り字
が統一されていなかったツワナ語に英文学のキャノンを翻訳する行為にどのような意味があったのか。そこに存
在した、当時の植民地エリートが抱えた「民族の近代化と言語的identityの存続」の問題を考察する。
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Session 2 (Individual Papers in Japanese) ／第2セッション（自由研究発表・日本語）
１．パリにおけるアフロモダニズムへのポーレット・ナルダルの貢献とジャズ批判
丸山 峻一（オハイオ州立大学・院）
(Paulette Nardal s Contributions to Afromodernism in Paris and Her Criticisms of Jazz
／ MARUYAMA Shunichi, Graduate Student, The Ohio State University, USA)
本発表は、マルティニーク出身の黒人女性知識人ポーレット・ナルダルの 20世紀初頭の活動に焦点を当て、彼
女がパリ郊外のクラマールで開いた黒人作家・知識人向けサロンの重要性やパリにおけるジャズの文化的影響
を、アフロモダニズムの文脈で再考する。サロンを通じてナルダルがいかに白人ヨーロッパ社会のモダニズムに
対抗するアフロモダニズムを構築する一方、その象徴とも言えるジャズのエキゾティシズムを批判したかを分析
し、20世紀初頭のパリにおける黒人文化の興隆を検討する。
２．Negro
Spiritual に見る黒人性
山本 愛（日本大学・講／ゴスペルシンガー）
(Negritude of Negro Spiritual ／ YAMAMOTO Ai , Nihon University & Gospel singer)
合衆国における奴隷制度の中で生き抜いてきたAfrican Americanの歴史は、その黒人性を考えるときに最も重要
な歴史的事実である。その奴隷制度の中で彼らが生み出したNegro Spiritualについて、音楽的、又は民族的側面
からその黒人性の中にある不屈の魂と、黒人性に秘められた音楽的な素晴らしさを分析しながら、黒人が特有に
持つ表現力の豊かさとその精神性に迫りたいと思う。発表の中で、いくつかの楽曲に触れながら体感して頂けれ
ば幸いである。
Symposium (in Japanese) ／ シンポジウム（日本語）＊2nd day morning
〈シンポジウム：アメリカ合衆国の奴隷制廃止150周年〉
（Symposium: 150 Years after the End of Slavery in the United States）
１．アメリカ南部奴隷制崩壊：真実の瞬間
加藤（磯野）順子（日本大学・講）
(The Disintegration of Slavery in American South As A Moment of Truth
／ KATO Isono Junko, Nihon University)
本報告ではまず英領植民地やブラジルなど他の奴隷社会を概観し、アメリカ南部奴隷制と廃止過程について、そ
の特異性や意義をアメリカ社会およびグローバルな視点で検証する。具体的には、世界で唯一廃止に内戦を伴っ
たことは当時のアメリカ民主主義の限界の証左であることや、市民権など奴隷制の教訓が廃止後の民主主義国家
形成に果たした役割を考察する。人種差別や暴力など現在のアメリカ社会にも意を払いながら、改めて南部奴隷
制を考えたい。
This paper attempts to identify the characteristics and significance of slavery and its demise in the United
States, in the hope of examining their impact upon American society and the world. To do so, it will be
useful first to investigate other slave societies, such as the British colonies and Brazil.
The fact that the United States alone required a civil war to abolish slavery suggests the limit of democracy
in antebellum America. At the same time, the citizenship defined after the Civil War in the Fourteenth
Amendment, for instance, is a clear indication that lessons from slavery played a key role in building a more
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democratic nation-state.
In order for us to understand racism and violence that still trouble the United States 150 years after the
official end of slavery, it might be worth revisiting slavery in American South.
２．奴隷体験記から自伝へ―フレデリック・ダグラスにおける語りの自由
朴珣英（金城学院大学）
(From Slave Narrative to Autobiography: Frederick Douglass s Self-Emancipation in Authorship ／ PARK Soon Young (Kinjo Gakuin University)
フレデリック・ダグラスはその生涯で三冊の単行本を刊行している。前二作（Narrative
of the Life of Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. 1845, My Bondage and My Freedom. 1855）と最後の一作
（Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. 1881. 1893）とでは決定的な違いがある。それは奴隷制廃止以前に書か
れたものか否かという点である。本発表では、奴隷制廃止を目的として書かれた奴隷体験記と呼ばれるNarrative
やMy Bondageと、そのような目的から解放されたLife and Timesにおける記述の変化を論じたい。
Frederick Douglass published three books in his life, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American
Slave, Written by Himself in 1845, My Bondage and My Freedom in 1855, and Life and Times of Frederick
Douglass in 1881 (revised edition, 1893). The great difference between the first two works and the last is that
they were written before and after the Abolition of slavery, respectively. In this paper I would like to deal
with the changes in description between these works. In doing so, I will illustrate how Douglass emancipated
himself as an author who can fully command his own authorship, from slave narrative to autobiography.
３．暴力的依存関係下での歌―生存を支える美意識
ウェルズ 恵子（立命館大学）
(Song Lyrics Created in Slavery Situations and Esthetics that Sustain the Oppressed
Keiko (Ritsumeikan University)
／ WELLS
奴隷制度は人間が人間を隷属させる習性を顕在化し、奴隷制度下の暴力的関係性は相互依存的な束縛関係でもあ
る。本発表では、被抑圧側がどのような思考で暴力的依存関係を批判したり維持したりするのかを、黒人霊歌の
歌詞から分析し、極限での表現がなぜ感動的で美しく、宗教的なのかを考察する。ハワイ移民一世の表現や近世
日本の芸能も傍証に加え、より普遍的に概観してみたい。結論として、合衆国奴隷制の研究から現代の問題と表
現について何が言えるのかを議論する。
150 years after of abolition of the Slavery in the United States, we know that politically systematized violence develops interdependent relationships between the oppressor and the oppressed. This paper analyzes
the lyrics of Black Spirituals to clarify that slaves both condemned and maintained such relationships by
establishing an esthetics that sustained their existence. I shall argue that the emotional experiences of harshly
oppressed people in other cultures, too, have similar tendencies and that they also have created powerful and
vernacular religious songs and stories. As examples we will examine songs by Japanese immigrants in Hawaii
and Japanese early modern balladry. Then we will discuss different types of slavery situations present in contemporary society, and what self-sustaining expressions we find in modern vernacular, thereby underlining
the continuing significance of studying the history of slavery in the United States.
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Session 3 (English) ／ 第3セッション（英語）
１．Black
Canada: We are rooted here
Rahab Njeri (Doctoral Student, University of Trier, Germany)
Recorded history is selective, in that it is largely written from the perspective of those who have the power
and institutional structures to write the history. Ergo, important facts, events, and voices of those rendered
as marginal by the dominant group are overlooked in the master, national narrative. African/ Black voices
and those of the First Nations are two marginal voices within Canadian narratives that have been markedly
omitted.(1)
Slavery and its atrocities constitute Canada s deepest and darkest secrets, the history of slavery, racism
and violence have been rendered invisible in the Canadian historical narrative and national memory.
Accordingly, when Canadian or Canadianess is viewed as a person of European origin, the skin color of
people of African descent marks them as different. The history of people of African descent as my project
will demonstrate, shows that Canada despite its diversity politics has always had a race problem that has
not ceased to exist since the first people of African descent arrived on the Canadian shores. Accordingly,
contesting this absence, my research project is a defiant statement that aims to highlight the continuing
Black presence in Canada. As scholar Rinaldo Walcott posits, The writing of blackness in Canada, then,
might begin with a belief that something important happens here. (2) *Notes: (1) Afua Cooper, The Hanging of Angelique: The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian
Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2006.
(2) Ronald Walcott, Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada, 2nd edition. Toronto: Insomniac Press,
2003.
２． Love
and Flames Legacies of Black Queer Solidarity with Palestinian Struggle
Che Gossett (Student Coordinator and Community Archivist,
Barnard Center for Research on Women, USA)
In this paper, I examine the legacies of Black queer solidarity with Palestinian struggle, by excavating June
Jordan and James Baldwin’s archives for what Jose Munoz called the performative force of the past and its
import for current prison abolitionist, Palestinian solidarity and anti-pinkwashing movements. Looking as
well at the archives of George Jackson, I discuss what his archive and the original manuscript of Soledad
Brother (rather than the widely available published version) reveals about Palestinian poetics, black radicalism, prison abolition and the afterlife of slavery.
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３．Theorizing
African Diaspora Womanism
(Independent of European Diaspora Feminism)
Dorothy Jane Randall Tsuruta (Professor and Chair, Dept. of Africana Studies,
College of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University, USA)
Progressive Black women worldwide, identify as Womanist and reject erroneously identifying from the
cultural conceptualization of White Feminism (which was developed by European Diaspora women
to theorize and act on their historical domination by European Diaspora men). Rather progressive Black
woman, scholars and nonacademic Black women alike, self-define ideologically within the Africana context
of the capable Black women s tradition. In the United States this tradition traces from the 17th century Black
poet Phillis Wheatly, onward through the centuries to Black activist women in the home and academy today.
The term Womanism derives from the African American expression womanish traditionally applied to
intelligent, capable Black females who take risks as conscientious activists undeterred by threatening forces of
opposition. Womanism, historically and culturally independent of feminism, works on behalf of the whole
community of Black people̶female as well as males, not separated by gender of any identity. In Nigeria
a complement term to Black Womanism is Africa Wo/Man Palava, explained by Chikwenye Okonjo
Ogunyemi as an emerging model of female discourse that... shifts from the idea of palava, or trouble, to a
focus on consensus... and cooperation to [tackle] sexism, totalitarianism, and ethnic prejudice. My paper
will explore this complementary Black Womanism and Africa Wo/Man Palava that posits Black women
traditionally independent and thus assertively distinguished from earlier Black followers of feminism s willing erstwhile dependency that contextualizes them as dependent (ideologically colonized) contrary to the
reality of the capable African/Black women s tradition.
Session 4 (English) ／ 第4セッション（英語）
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So you see...we all have problems : African American Comedy on LP Record
David Hopkins (Tenri University, Japan)
The comedy album seems to be a form of entertainment that didn t survive the industry transition to CDs,
yet, judging only by the number of comedy albums released, it was a major genre in the 1960s and 70s.
African American comedians, led by Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, Flip Wilson and others made the jump
from the relative obscurity of the Chitlin Circuit to mainstream American TV and radio during this era.
Their strategies for dealing with serious racial issues with humor are an important chapter in any study of
African American humor. Much lesser known are comedians like Hattie Noel or Sloppy Daniels who stayed
in the Chitlin Circuit and released obscure albums on obscure labels like Dooto or MF, seeking an African
American audience with little attempt to cross over. Moms Mabley and Redd Foxx represent two artists from
this background who eventually did cross over to television. Contrasting these contemporaneous approaches
to comedy will be the focus of this presentation.
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２．The
Gentle Black Giants Revisited―They Came Before the Babe
Gaynell Theodore Catherine (Court Reporter & Historical Researcher,
IOKTS Productions, USA)
This paper critically explores one of the least known and written about events in Baseball history. This little
known fact occurred in 1927, when the Negro League s Philadelphia Royal Giants and players from the
Japanese American Baseball League, toured Japan and other Asian countries. This paper will analyze and
enhance the historical record of this event as it has been told in the only book written about this monumental tour: The Gentle Black Giants, (1986) , by author, baseball writer and researcher, Kazuo Sayama.
Sayama s book is written in Japanese, and has never been translated to English. Contrary to historical
accounts, Sayama s main theme is that it was this 1927 tour and the exceptional play, graciousness and
humility displayed by the Negro League players that inspired the Japanese to organize baseball. Most historical sources point to the tour of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig eight years later (1935), as being the catalyst
towards Japanese organized baseball. But very little is written about the role and influence of the Negro
League players in 1927.
By researching existing records from Japanese and American sources, and personal testimonies, I will build
on Sayama s theme. In addition, I will highlight the important contributions of Japanese American pioneer
Kenichi Zenimura, organizer of the 1927 tour.
Through photographs and written commentary, this paper will bring new light to the 1927 African-American/
Japanese American Baseball tour, as it explores the relationship that existed between two disenfranchised
American groups who wanted to play baseball.
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Japan Black Studies Association (est. 1954)
黒人研究の会（1954年創設）
*Contact people concerning this conference:
KATO, Tsunehiko
FURUKAWA, Tetsushi President, JBSA
Chair of the Conference
Professor Emeritus
Vice President, JBSA
Ritsumeikan University
Professor of History and Culture
e-mail: [email protected]
Department of Intercultural Studies
Otani University
Koyamakamifusa, Kita-ku
Kyoto 603-8143, JAPAN
e-mail: [email protected]
＊本大会に関する問い合わせ
加藤 恒彦
古川 哲史
黒人研究の会・代表
第61回大会実行委員長
立命館大学名誉教授
黒人研究の会・副代表
メール：[email protected]
〒603−8143 京都市北区小山上総町
大谷大学文学部・国際文化学科
メール：[email protected]
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