Collaborative Settler Colonialism : Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lu, Sidney Xu.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Though Japanese migration to Brazil started only at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil is now the country with the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan. Collaborative Settler Colonialism examines this history as a central chapter of both Brazil's and Japan's processes of nation and empire building, and, crucially, as a convergence of their settler colonial projects. Inspired by American colonialism and the final conquest of the U.S. Western frontier, Brazilian and Japanese empire builders collaborated to bring Japanese migrant workers to Brazil, which had the outcome of simultaneously dispossessing Indigenous Brazilians of their land and furthering the expansion of Japanese land and resource possession abroad. Bringing discourses of Latin American and Japanese settler colonialism into rare dialogue with each other, this book offers new insight into understanding the Japanese empire, the history of immigration in Brazil and Latin America, and the past and present of settler colonialism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Names, Terms, and Translations

Introduction

PART I THE ORIGINS, NINETEENTH CENTURY–1908

1 The U.S. Frontier and the Making of Two Migration States

2 Before the Sailing of the Kasato Maru

PART II THE FORMATION OF SETTLER COMMUNITIES, 1908–1930s

3 Seizing the Land: Coffee, Railroad, and Settler Community Making

4 “Making the World Our Home” The Heyday of Collaborative Settler Colonialism

PART III SETTLER IDENTITY IN CRISIS, 1920s–1940s

5 Land, Media, and the Formation of Settler Colonial Identity

6 “Orphan of the World” The Myth and Reality of Racial Inclusion

PART IV WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1930s–1970s

7 Conquering the Tropics: Collaborative Settler Colonialism in the Amazon

8 Reinventing Japan and Japanese Brazilians

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780520404335

0520404335

OCLC:

1468980224