Subverting exclusion : transpacific encounters with race, caste, and borders, 1885-1928 / Andrea Geiger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geiger, Andrea A. E.

Series:

Lamar series in western history.

The Lamar series in western history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--North America--History--19th century.

Japanese.

Japanese--North America--History--20th century.

Japanese--North America--Social conditions.

Racism--North America--History.

Racism.

Boundaries--Social aspects--North America--History.

Boundaries.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--History.

Canada.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

United States.

British Columbia--Emigration and immigration--History.

British Columbia.

Japan--Emigration and immigration--History.

Japan.

North America--Race relations.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of these and other Japanese immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion, one based in caste and the other in race.Geiger reveals that the experiences of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by attitudes rooted in Japan's formal status system, mibunsei, decades after it was formally abolished. In the North American West, however, the immigrants' understanding of social status as caste-based collided with American and Canadian perceptions of status as primarily race-based. Geiger shows how the lingering influence of Japan's strict status system affected immigrants' perceptions and understandings of race in North America and informed their strategic responses to two increasingly complex systems of race-based exclusionary law and policy.

Contents:

Caste, status, and mibun

Emigration from Meiji Japan

Negotiating status and contesting race in North America

Confronting White racism

The U.S.-Canada border

The U.S.-Mexico border

Debating the contours of citizenship

Reframing community and policing marriage

The rhetoric of homogeneity

Conclusion: Refracting difference

Timeline: Key moments in Japanese immigrants' history in North America to 1928

Glossary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613344755

9781283344753

1283344750

9780300177978

0300177976

OCLC:

778459401