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Record Nr.

UNISA996649867803316

Autore

Lu Sidney Xu

Titolo

Collaborative Settler Colonialism : Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9780520404335

0520404335

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 pages)

Disciplina

331.6/25608100904

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names, Terms, and Translations -- Introduction -- PART I THE ORIGINS, NINETEENTH CENTURY–1908 -- 1 The U.S. Frontier and the Making of Two Migration States -- 2 Before the Sailing of the Kasato Maru -- PART II THE FORMATION OF SETTLER COMMUNITIES, 1908–1930s -- 3 Seizing the Land: Coffee, Railroad, and Settler Community Making -- 4 “Making the World Our Home” The Heyday of Collaborative Settler Colonialism -- PART III SETTLER IDENTITY IN CRISIS, 1920s–1940s -- 5 Land, Media, and the Formation of Settler Colonial Identity -- 6 “Orphan of the World” The Myth and Reality of Racial Inclusion -- PART IV WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1930s–1970s -- 7 Conquering the Tropics: Collaborative Settler Colonialism in the Amazon -- 8 Reinventing Japan and Japanese Brazilians -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.    Though Japanese migration to Brazil started only at the turn of the twentieth century, Brazil is now the country with the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan. Collaborative Settler Colonialism examines this history as a central chapter of both Brazil's and Japan's processes of nation and empire



building, and, crucially, as a convergence of their settler colonial projects. Inspired by American colonialism and the final conquest of the U.S. Western frontier, Brazilian and Japanese empire builders collaborated to bring Japanese migrant workers to Brazil, which had the outcome of simultaneously dispossessing Indigenous Brazilians of their land and furthering the expansion of Japanese land and resource possession abroad. Bringing discourses of Latin American and Japanese settler colonialism into rare dialogue with each other, this book offers new insight into understanding the Japanese empire, the history of immigration in Brazil and Latin America, and the past and present of settler colonialism.