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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Edinburgh East Asian Studies series.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3464813 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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