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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822653803321

Autore

Arudō Debito <1965->

Titolo

Embedded racism : Japan's visible minorities and racial discrimination / / Debito Arudou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-1391-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (379 p.)

Disciplina

305.800952

Soggetti

Racism - Japan

Nationalism - Social aspects - Japan

Minorities - Japan - Social conditions

Noncitizens - Japan - Social conditions

Race discrimination - Japan

Race discrimination - Law and legislation - Japan

Physical-appearance-based bias - Japan

Social isolation - Japan

Japan Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Why such a long introduction? -- Part One: The context of racism in Japan -- Racial discrimination in Japan : contextualizing the issue -- How racism "works" in Japan -- Part Two: "Japanese only" : examples of racial discrimination -- Case studies of "Japanese only" exclusionary businesses -- Part Three: The construction of Japan's embedded racism -- Legal constructions of "Japaneseness" -- How "Japaneseness" is enforced through laws -- A "Chinaman's chance" in Japanese court -- From foreign fetishization to fear in the Japanese media -- Part Four. Challenges to Japan's exclusionary narratives -- Maintaining the binary despite domestic and international pressure -- Part Five. Discussion and conclusions -- Putting the concept of "embedded racism" to work -- "So what?" : why Japan's "embedded racism" matters : Japan's bleak future -- Glossary -- Appendix One:



Sakanaka's "big Japan" vs. "small Japan" -- Appendix Two: This research's debt to critical race theory.

Sommario/riassunto

Embedded Racism untangles Japan's complex narrative on nationality and race and how it threatens its very survival. Incorporating a quarter-century of research by a naturalized Japanese citizen, it argues that Japan's economic and demographic decline is irreversible until it can accept immigrants, regardless of physical appearance, as 'new Japanese.'