A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan /

A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan / / 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 co...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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