Japanese racial identities within US-Japan relations, 1853-1919 /

Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relations.

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Hlavní autor: Merida, Tarik (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Edice:Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3464813
Obsah:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: The Japanese Racial Anomaly
  • On the (ir)relevance of studying race
  • Subject and scope
  • Theoretical framework--the racial middle ground
  • Focus and sources
  • Structure of the book
  • Part I: Race in the Japanese Context: Early Modern Patterns of Differentiation and the Introduction of Race in Modern Japan
  • 1 Patterns of Differentiation in Early Modern Japan
  • On the existence of race in early modern Japan
  • Confucianism and the 'Middle Kingdom'
  • Gender and equality in early modern Japan
  • Hairy barbarians: Ainu, foreigners and Japanese civilisation
  • 2 The Translation of Race in the Meiji Period
  • Introducing modernity: the translation of race in the early Meiji period
  • Adapting the concept of race
  • Part II: A Racial Middle Ground: Negotiating the Japanese Racial Identity in the Context of White Supremacy
  • 3 Between Two Races--The Birth of the Racial Middle Ground between Japan and the West
  • Japan and the standard of civilisation: the problem of race against civilisation
  • Japan, the West and the racial middle ground
  • Racial pessimism and the survival of the fittest
  • 4 Two Wars and First Successes: From the Port Arthur Massacre to the Treaty of Portsmouth
  • Early benefits of the racial middle ground: the Port Arthur Massacre
  • 'Yellow fears' of 'yellow peril': race and the Russo-Japanese War
  • Agents of the racial middle ground
  • 5 Further Successes and the Limits of the Racial Middle Ground
  • The California Crisis
  • Becoming visible: Japanese immigration to the United States
  • Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese racial identity
  • 6 African Americans and the Racial Middle Ground
  • The race at the bottom (I): the Black press and the California Crisis
  • The race at the bottom (II): the meaning of African Americans for Japan
  • Early Japanese views of African Americans
  • The 'Black problem' or how to sell Japanese immigrants
  • The human aspect of the racial middle ground
  • 7 The End of the Racial Middle Ground
  • The crisis goes on: the Alien Land Law of 1913
  • Losing appeal: the West, Japan and alternative visions of world orders
  • Embracing yellowness: the appeal of Pan-Asianism
  • The collapse of the racial middle ground: the Paris Peace Conference
  • Conclusion: The Elusive Japanese Race

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