Japanese Racial Identities within U.S.-Japan Relations, 1853-1919 /

Japanese Racial Identities within U.S.-Japan Relations, 1853-1919 / / Tarik Merida.

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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Merida, Tarik,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh East Asian Studies : EEAS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (195 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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
  • References
  • Index

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