Japanese racial identities within US-Japan relations, 1853-1919

Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relationsBreaks up the traditional dichotomic view of race relationsEmploys a new and more functional theoretical approach to understand the negotiated quality of not only the Japanese racial identity, but also...

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1. Verfasser: Merida, Tarik (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Buch/Monographie Hochschulschrift
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2023
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh East Asian Studies EEAS
DOI:10.1515/9781399506915
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Verfasserangaben:Tarik Merida
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: The Japanese Racial Anomaly
  • Part I: Race in the Japanese Context: Early Modern Patterns of Differentiation and the Introduction of Race in Modern Japan
  • Chapter 1 Patterns of Differentiation in Early Modern Japan
  • Chapter 2 The Translation of Race in the Meiji Period
  • Part II: A Racial Middle Ground: Negotiating the Japanese Racial Identity in the Context of White Supremacy
  • Chapter 3 Between Two Races – The Birth of the Racial Middle Ground between Japan and the West
  • Chapter 4 Two Wars and First Successes: From the Port Arthur Massacre to the Treaty of Portsmouth
  • Chapter 5 Further Successes and the Limits of the Racial Middle Ground – The California Crisis
  • Chapter 6 African Americans and the Racial Middle Ground
  • Chapter 7 The End of the Racial Middle Ground
  • Conclusion: The Elusive Japanese Race