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A Literary History of African American and Japanese Cultural Exchange (1870 - 2015) [this Application Requests One Year of Support From the Neh for Archival Research and the Writing of a Monograph Entitled <em>the Black Pacific: a Poetic History</em>, Which Has Been Invited for Review by the University of California Press. at Its Foundation, This Monograph Is a History of Modern Japanese Literature From the Late-nineteenth Century to the Present. This History, However, Joins the Contemporary Re-imagining of the Disciplinary Borders of Modern Japanese Literary Studies and Its Connections to Fields Such as Black Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latinx Studies. Spanning From Best-selling Japanese Translations of Black Slave Narratives to the Haiku Richard Wright Wrote on His Deathbed, <em>the Black Pacific</em> Traces the Transoceanic Ebb and Flow of Racial Discourses Circulating Throughout Modern Japanese Literature.]