A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan / / Kurokawa Midori, Teraki Nobuaki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Nobuaki, Teraki,; Midori, Kurokawa,
• MitwirkendeR: Nobuaki, Teraki,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures --; Translator’s Preface --; Foreword --; PART I: THE PRE-MODERN PERIOD --; CHAPTER 1 The Establishment of the Japanese State and the Formation and Transformation of Status Discrimination --; CHAPTER 2 The Formation of the Ritsuryō State Structure and the Status System --; CHAPTER 3 Formation and Development of Society in the Middle Ages and the Lifestyle and Culture of Discriminated People --; CHAPTER 4 The Establishment of Kawata and Chōri Status – the Buraku of the early modern period --; CHAPTER 5 Discriminated Groups of the Early Modern Period --; CHAPTER 6 The Development of Early Modern (Kinsei) Society and Discriminated People --; CHAPTER 7 The Dislocation and Collapse of Early Modern Society and Discriminated People --; PART TWO --; CHAPTER 8 What was the ‘Buraku’ problem in the modern period? --; CHAPTER 9 Signs of Discrimination Invented --; CHAPTER 10 Discriminated Buraku are ‘Discovered’ --; CHAPTER 11 Seeking Unification of the Empire --; CHAPTER 12 Rice Riots and Racial Equality --; CHAPTER 13 Liberation by Our Own Efforts --; CHAPTER 14 Liberation or Conciliation? --; CHAPTER 15 ‘National Unity’ and its Contradictions --; CHAPTER 16 Post-war Reforms and the Re-launch of the Buraku Liberation Movement --; CHAPTER 17 Making Citizens: Becoming Citizens --; CHAPTER 18 Absorption and Exclusion into ‘Civil Society’ --; CHAPTER 19 Looking at the Buraku Problem Now --; Afterword --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781898823971; 9783110661521
• DOI: 10.1515/9781898823971?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kurokawa Midori, Teraki Nobuaki.

At the heart of modern Japan there remains an intractable and divisive social problem with its roots in pre-history, namely the ongoing social discrimination against the D?wa communities, otherwise known as Buraku. Their marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue. Buraku studies, once largely ignored within Japan’s academia and by scholarly publishers, have developed considerably in the first decades of the twenty-first century, as the extensive bibliographies of both Japanese and English sources provided here clearly demonstrates. The authors of the present study published in Japanese in 2016 and translated here by the Oxford scholar Ian Neary, have been able to incorporate this most recent data. Because of its importance as the first Buraku history based on this new research, a wider readership was always the authors’ principal focus. Yet, it also provides a valuable source book for further study by those wishing to develop their knowledge about the subject from an informed base. This history of the Buraku communities and their antecedents is the first such study to be published in English.