{"product_id":"transpacific-nonencounters-racial-disconnects-across-twentieth-century-japan-and-mexico-hardback-9781478033738","title":"Transpacific Nonencounters; Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico (Hardback) 9781478033738","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTranspacific Nonencounters\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRacial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrea Mendoza (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781478033738\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 April 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.449 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Andrea Mendoza’s \u003ci\u003eTranspacific Nonencounters\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking study that redefines how we think about race, coloniality, and knowledge production across Japan and Mexico. Through the innovative framework of “nonencounter,’ Mendoza offers a bold, field-defining contribution to transpacific, decolonial, and comparative studies.”—Leo T.S. Ching, author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTranspacific Nonencounters\u003c\/i\u003e urges readers to reevaluate the language of distance and difference that articulates settler-colonialism, imperialism, and anti-Blackness as a global grammar. Mendoza offers the concept of the nonencounter as a capacious site of reading that indexes these disavowed transpacific legacies of racism. An invaluable and inspiring contribution to understanding the stakes of adopting the transpacific as a critical viewpoint.”—Laura J. Torres-Rodríguez, author of \u003ci\u003eOrientaciones transpacíficas: la modernidad mexicana y el espectro de Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTranspacific Nonencounters\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrea Mendoza works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Mendoza calls the theory of nonencounter. Intellectual and cultural productions of racial knowledge were important for the formation of the modernizing Mexican and Japanese states at the beginning of the twentieth century and helped conceive the project of national modernity through ideologies that promoted multiracial and multiethnic belonging—\u003ci\u003emestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e and Pan-Asian co-prosperity. Despite the diasporic, economic, and political points of contact that connected these states throughout the twentieth century, however, traditional Eurocentric comparative and area-based studies treat the formations and legacies of Mexican mestizo nationalism and Japanese imperialism as wholly unrelated phenomena. \u003ci\u003eTranspacific Nonencounters\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a theory of nonencounter to formulate the logic of disciplinary disconnection, offering a framework and hermeneutic for a transpacific account of how Japanese imperialism and Mexican \u003ci\u003emestizo\u003c\/i\u003e settler nationalism structured and reinforced one another through the modern formations of race and racism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNote on Terminology  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Transpacific Nonencounters  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Grammars of Imperial Nationalism: The Philosophical Contours of Racial Settler Colonialism  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eTierras IncÓ\u003cbr\u003egnitas\u003c\/i\u003e: Japanese Humanity and the Question of Mexican Philosophy  56\u003cbr\u003e 3. \u003ci\u003eMestizaje\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003cbr\u003es Echoes: The Spectacle of Race as Cacophony  86\u003cbr\u003e 4. Racial (Dis)connects in the Wake: Transpacific Inscriptions and Erasures of Black Life  118\u003cbr\u003e Coda. Nonencounters at the “\u003cbr\u003eEnds”\u003cbr\u003e of Area  149\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  161\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  181\u003cbr\u003e Index  195\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591026897176,"sku":"9781478033738","price":62.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/transpacific-nonencounters-racial-disconnects-across-twentieth-century-japan-and-mexico-hardback-9781478033738","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}