Working skin : making leather, making a multicultural Japan /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hankins, Joseph D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Japonés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]
Series:Asia Pacific modern ; 13.
Subjects:
Buraku people > Social conditions.
Buraku people > Government policy.
Multiculturalism > Japan.
Labor > Japan.
Working class > Japan.
Eta (Caste japonaise) > Conditions sociales.
Eta (Caste japonaise) > Politique gouvernementale.
Multiculturalisme > Japon.
Travail > Japon.
Travailleurs > Japon.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Buraku people > Government policy
Buraku people > Social conditions
Labor
Multiculturalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Working class
Burakumin
Lederverarbeitung
Ausgrenzung
Kaste
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Japan > Social conditions.
Japan > Politics and government.
Japon > Conditions sociales.
Japon > Politique et gouvernement.
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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