Japan's outcaste abolition
Subtitle: the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state
By: Noah Y. McCormack
Series: Asia's transformations
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415501323; 9780203112748
Subjects: Outcasts; Equality; Assimilation (Sociology); Social status; Social conditions; Social movements; Social Marginality; History
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outcaste status after equality; title: A status society; title: Outcaste status; title: Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition; title: Defiled bloodlines; title: Foreign origins as stigma; title: The stigma of place; title: Assimilation as liberation.