Working Skin : Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan /

Mostrar otras versiones (3)

Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stig...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hankins, Joseph D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Japonés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Kaste
Ausgrenzung
Lederverarbeitung
Burakumin
Working class.
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Multiculturalism.
Labor.
Buraku people > Social conditions.
Buraku people > Government policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Travailleurs > Japon.
Travail > Japon.
Multiculturalisme > Japon.
Eta (Caste japonaise) > Politique gouvernementale.
Eta (Caste japonaise) > Conditions sociales.
Working class > Japan.
Labor > Japan.
Multiculturalism > Japan.
Japan
Japan.
Japon > Politique et gouvernement.
Japon > Conditions sociales.
Japan > Politics and government.
Japan > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Recognizing Buraku difference. Of skins and workers : producing the Buraku
  • "Ushimatsu left for Texas" : passing the Buraku
  • Choice and obligation in contemporary Buraku politics. Locating the Buraku : a political ecology of pollution
  • A sleeping public : Buraku politics and the cultivation of human rights
  • International standards and the possibilities of solidarity. Demanding a standard : Buraku politics on a global stage
  • Wounded futures : prospects of transnational solidarity
  • Conclusion: the disciplines of multiculturalism
  • Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and back.

Ejemplares similares