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

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Geiger, Andrea A. E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Series:Lamar series in western history.
Subjects:
Japanese > North America > History > 19th century.
Japanese > North America > History > 20th century.
Japanese > North America > Social conditions.
Racism > North America > History.
Canada > Emigration and immigration > History.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History.
British Columbia > Emigration and immigration > History.
Japan > Emigration and immigration > History.
Boundaries > Social aspects > North America > History.
North America > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Boundaries > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Japanese.
Japanese > Social conditions.
Race relations.
Racism.
British Columbia.
Canada.
Japan.
North America.
United States.
History.
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.

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