Title: Subverting exclusion
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.
Subjects: Race relations, Immigrants, Japanese, Racism, Boundaries, Social conditions, Emigration and immigration, Social Marginality, History, Canada, United States, Canada, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigration, Japan, emigration and immigration, North america, race relations, Social aspects
Places: North America, Japan
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century