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Embedded racism : Japan's visible minorities and racial discrimination / Debito Arudou.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arudō, Debito, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Japan.
- Racism.
- Nationalism--Social aspects--Japan.
- Nationalism.
- Minorities--Japan--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- Noncitizens--Japan--Social conditions.
- Noncitizens.
- Race discrimination--Japan.
- Race discrimination.
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--Japan.
- Physical-appearance-based bias--Japan.
- Physical-appearance-based bias.
- Social isolation--Japan.
- Social isolation.
- Japan--Race relations.
- Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (379 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Embedded Racism untangles Japan's complex narrative on nationality and race and how it threatens its very survival. Incorporating a quarter-century of research by a naturalized Japanese citizen, it argues that Japan's economic and demographic decline is irreversible until it can accept immigrants, regardless of physical appearance, as 'new Japanese.'
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why such a long introduction?
- Part One: The context of racism in Japan
- Racial discrimination in Japan : contextualizing the issue
- How racism "works" in Japan
- Part Two: "Japanese only" : examples of racial discrimination
- Case studies of "Japanese only" exclusionary businesses
- Part Three: The construction of Japan's embedded racism
- Legal constructions of "Japaneseness"
- How "Japaneseness" is enforced through laws
- A "Chinaman's chance" in Japanese court
- From foreign fetishization to fear in the Japanese media
- Part Four. Challenges to Japan's exclusionary narratives
- Maintaining the binary despite domestic and international pressure
- Part Five. Discussion and conclusions
- Putting the concept of "embedded racism" to work
- "So what?" : why Japan's "embedded racism" matters : Japan's bleak future
- Glossary
- Appendix One: Sakanaka's "big Japan" vs. "small Japan"
- Appendix Two: This research's debt to critical race theory.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4985-1391-3
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