Edie Fields’s Reviews > My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents > Status Update

i found i was better able to follow the analysis of the history here, or maybe it was combined with more narratives. Also horrified at the description of her neo nazi encounter on the train because the one i worked with was exactly like this and it was disgusting. Also she still hasnt said WHY she moved to germany. Did i miss it??

Ohhhhh baby its getting a little slow here
Like this is all important information but i am getting lost in all of these dates and laws and discussions of other colonies and im losing sight of the bigger picture

Anyway. I’m sort of confused on the through-line between Neal’s negative experience and academic critique of the colorism present in Japan’s culture and her exploration of Japanese and Black history. I was sort of left wondering well how did these decades of academic collaboration and mutual sharing of propaganda turn into your modern day experience? But I suspect I may have missed something on my end. Idk

I made it to the Australia section and im still thinking about the Japan section. I really loved it!!! Neal combines her experiences in Japan in with historical analysis of the interactions between Black and Japanese history in such a rich and enjoyable way. I didn’t know that when Megan Thee Stallion said im a weeb and a baddie she was in fact connected to a long line of history between the two cultures !