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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Geiger, Andrea A. E.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Series:	Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:	1800-1999 Japanese > North America > History > 19th century. Japanese > North America > History > 20th century. Japanese > North America > Social conditions. Racism > North America > History. Boundaries > Social aspects > North America > History. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies. Boundaries > Social aspects Emigration and immigration Japanese Japanese > Social conditions Race relations Racism Canada > Emigration and immigration > History. United States > Emigration and immigration > History. British Columbia > Emigration and immigration > History. Japan > Emigration and immigration > History. North America > Race relations. British Columbia Canada Japan North America United States History
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Table of Contents:

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.

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

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