Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination - Couverture souple

Arudou, Debito

 
9781498513920: Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination
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ISBN 10 : 1498513921 ISBN 13 : 9781498513920
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display "Japanese Only" signs, denying entry to all 'foreigners' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments to foreign applicants. Japanese police racially profile 'foreign-looking' bystanders for invasive questioning on the street. Legislators, administrators, and pundits portray foreigners as a national security threat and call for their segregation and expulsion. Nevertheless, Japan's government and media claim there is no discrimination by race in Japan, therefore no laws are necessary.

How does Japan resolve the cognitive dissonance of racial discrimination being unconstitutional yet not illegal? Embedded Racism carefully untangles Japanese society's complex narrative on race by analyzing two mutually-supportive levels of national identity maintenance. Starting with case studies of hundreds of individual "Japanese Only" businesses, it carefully analyzes the construction of Japanese identity through legal structures, statute enforcement, public policy, and media messages. It reveals how the concept of a "Japanese" has been racialized to the point where one must look "Japanese" to be treated as one.

The product of a quarter-century of research and fieldwork by a scholar living in Japan as a naturalized Japanese citizen, Embedded Racism offers an unprecedented perspective on Japan's deeply-entrenched, poorly-understood, and strenuously-unacknowledged discrimination as it affects people by physical appearance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Debito Arudou is author of Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan and Japanese Only: The Otaru Hot Springs Case and Racial Discrimination in Japan. www.debito.org.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498513921
ISBN 13 
9781498513920
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
404
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781498513906: Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination

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ISBN 10 :  1498513905 ISBN 13 :  9781498513906
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015
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