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Subverting exclusion : transpacific encounters with race, caste, and borders, 1885-1928 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Geiger, Andrea A. E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Lamar series in western history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Caste, status, and mibun
  • Emigration from Meiji Japan
  • Negotiating status and contesting race in North America
  • Confronting White racism
  • The U.S.-Canada border
  • The U.S.-Mexico border
  • Debating the contours of citizenship
  • Reframing community and policing marriage
  • The rhetoric of homogeneity
  • Conclusion: Refracting difference
  • Timeline: Key moments in Japanese immigrants' history in North America to 1928
  • Glossary.