A fourth-generation Japanese American, Vince Schleitwiler was raised in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, and received his PhD in English from the University of Washington. His first book, Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives (NYU Press, 2017), explores the intersecting migrations of Japanese Americans, Filipinos, and African Americans across US imperial domains, from the 1890s to the 1940s. His scholarship in Asian American, African American, and comparative ethnic studies has been published in African American Review, Amerasia Journal, and Comparative Literature, among others. His current projects include a book chapter on black transpacific culture, circa 1900-1910, for Cambridge University Press’s African American Literature in Transition series; coediting of a recovered photo-text manuscript on post-World War II Japanese American Chicago; and a second monograph, provisionally titled “Racial Difference beyond White Supremacy: From Afro-Asia to Outer Space.” Before returning to UW, he taught at Williams College and the University of Southern California, and served as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Art and Thought, producing a set of serial essays for a blog, City of Refuge. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked in journalism and independent film in Brooklyn, NY.