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Title Race and migration in the Transpacific / edited by Yasuko Takezawa and Akio Tanabe
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 24
Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 24.
Contents Part I: Encounters, Entanglement and Solidarity -- Settler Colonialism as Encounter: On the Question of Racialization and Labor Power in the Dispossession of Ainu Lands / Katsuya Hirano -- Burakumin Emigrants to America: Historical Experience of 'Racialization' and 'Solidarity' Across the Pacific / Hiroshi Sekiguchi -- From Anti-Japanese to Anti-Mexican: Linkages of Racialization Experiences in 1920s California / Yu Tokunaga -- Part II: Empire and Effects of Categorization -- Colonial Rule and "Category": Policing in Colonial Singapore / Takeshi Onimaru -- The Virtualization of Race-Data governance and racialization in modern India / Akio Tanabe -- Racism in Imperial and Post-Imperial Japanese Language Literature / Ryuichi Narita -- Part III: Minor Alliance, Memory, and Affect -- The Japanese American Critique of the Atomic Bomb and its Up Againstness / Crystal Uchino -- The 1992 LA Uprising and the Politics of Representation: Multi-layered Memory in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 / Kazuyo Tsuchiya -- Unravelling and Connecting in the Transpacific: The Narratives and Work of Yoko Inoue and Jean Shin / Yasuko Takezawa
Summary "Looking at a range of cases from around the Transpacific, the contributors to this book explore the complex formulations of race and racism emerging from the transoceanic migration and encounters in the region. Asia has a history of ceaseless, active, and multidirectional migration which continues to bear multilayered and complex genetic diversity. The traditional system of rank order between groups of people in Asia consisted of multiple 'invisible' differences in variegated entanglements, including descent, birthplace, occupation, and lifestyle. Transpacific migration brought about the formation of multilayered and complex racial relationships, as the physically indistinguishable yet multifaceted racialized groups encountered the hegemonic racial order deriving from the transatlantic experience of racialization based on 'visible' differences. Each chapter in this book examines a different case study, identifying their complexities and particularities, while contributing to a broad view of the possibilities for solidarity and human connection in a context of domination and discrimination. These cases include the dispossession of the Ainu people, the experiences of Burakumin emigrants in America, the policing of colonial Singapore, and data governance in India. A fascinating read for sociologists, anthropologists and historians, especially those with a particular focus on the Asian and Pacific regions"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Yasuko Takezawa is Professor at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University. Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnic Studies, American Studies. Akio Tanabe is former Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Anthropology, History, South Asian Studies
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 08, 2022)
Subject Racism -- North Pacific Region -- Case studies
Human rights -- North Pacific Region -- Case studies
Race discrimination -- North Pacific Region -- Case studies
Immigrants -- North Pacific Region -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Human rights.
Immigrants.
Race discrimination.
Race relations.
Racism.
SUBJECT North Pacific Region -- Race relations -- Case studies
Subject North Pacific Region.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
Author Takezawa, Yasuko I., 1957- editor.
Tanabe, Akio, 1964- editor.
LC no. 2022049130
ISBN 9781003266396
1003266398
1000784800
9781000784763
1000784762
9781000784800