Subverting exclusion
Subtitle: transpacific encounters with race, caste, and borders, 1885-1928
By: Andrea Geiger
Series: The Lamar series in Western history
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780300169638
Subjects: Race relations; Immigrants; Japanese; Racism; Boundaries; Social conditions; Emigration and immigration; Social Marginality; History
Description: Concerned with people called variously: eta, burakumin, buraku jumin, buraku people, outcastes, or "the lowest of the low", this book examines how their experience of caste/status-based discrimination in 19th century Japan affected their experience of race-based discrimination in the West of the US and Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Caste, status, and mibun; title: Emigration from Meiji Japan; title: Negotiating status and contesting race in North America; title: Confronting White racism; title: The U.S.-Canada border; title: The U.S.-Mexico border; title: Debating the contours of citizenship; title: Reframing community and policing marriage; title: The rhetoric of homogeneity; title: Conclusion: Refracting difference; title: Timeline: Key moments in Japanese immigrants' history in North America to 1928; title: Glossary.