Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders 1855-1928 - Couverture rigide

Geiger, Andrea

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300169639 ISBN 13 : 9780300169638

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included individuals with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of these immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion, including the notion of outcaste status. Geiger reveals that the experiences of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by Japan's formal status system, mibunsei, decades after it was formally abolished. The immigrants' understanding of social status as caste-based, however, 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 the North American West in the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Andrea Geiger is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser University. She lives in Vancouver.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300169639
• ISBN 13: 9780300169638
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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