COVER -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY -- Introduction -- 1. Caste, Status, Mibun -- 2. Emigration from Meiji Japan -- 3. Negotiating Status and Contesting Race in North America -- 4. Confronting White Racism -- 5. The U.S.-Canada Border -- 6. The U.S.-Mexic…
Concerned with people called variously: eta, burakumin, buraku jumin, buraku people, outcastes, or "the lowest of the low", this book examines how their experience of caste/status-based discrimination in 19th century Japan affected their experience of race-based discrimination i…
