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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457645403321

Autore

Geiger Andrea A. E

Titolo

Subverting exclusion [[electronic resource] ] : transpacific encounters with race, caste, and borders, 1885-1928 / / Andrea Geiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-34475-0

9786613344755

0-300-17797-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Collana

The Lamar series in western history

Disciplina

305.80097

Soggetti

Japanese - North America - History - 19th century

Japanese - North America - History - 20th century

Japanese - North America - Social conditions

Racism - North America - History

Boundaries - Social aspects - North America - History

Electronic books.

Canada Emigration and immigration History

United States Emigration and immigration History

British Columbia Emigration and immigration History

Japan Emigration and immigration History

North America Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Caste, status, and mibun -- Emigration from Meiji Japan -- Negotiating status and contesting race in North America -- Confronting White racism -- The U.S.-Canada border -- The U.S.-Mexico border -- Debating the contours of citizenship -- Reframing community and policing marriage -- The rhetoric of homogeneity -- Conclusion: Refracting difference -- Timeline: Key moments in Japanese immigrants' history in North America to 1928 -- Glossary.

Sommario/riassunto

The Japanese immigrants who arrived in the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries included people with historical ties to Japan's outcaste communities. In the only English-



language book on the subject, Andrea Geiger examines the history of these and other Japanese immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion, one based in caste and the other in race.Geiger reveals that the experiences of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by attitudes rooted in Japan's formal status system, mibunsei, decades after it was formally abolished. In the North American West, however, the immigrants' understanding of social status as caste-based 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 North America and informed their strategic responses to two increasingly complex systems of race-based exclusionary law and policy.