Japanese Racial Identities within U.S.-Japan Relations, 1853-1919

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Tarik Merida, Freie Universitat Berlin) Merida, Tarik (Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies

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Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relationsBreaks up the traditional dichotomic view of race relationsEmploys a new and more functional theoretical approach to understand the negotiated quality of not only the Japanese racial identity, but also of racial identities in generalFirmly anchors Japanese history in a global frameworkIntroduces a wide array of new Japanese sources particularly on the topic of Japanese and African American relationsThis book retraces the process through which, at the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese went from a racial anomaly to honorary members of the White race. It explores the interpretation of the Japanese race by Western powers, particularly the United States, during Japan's ascension as a great power between 1853 and 1919. Forced to cope with this new element in the Far East, Western nations such as the U.S. had to device a negotiation zone in which they could accommodate the Japanese and negotiate their racial identity. In this book, Tarik Merida, presents a new tool to study this process of negotiation: the Racial Middle Ground.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-02-21
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh East Asian Studies
Antal sidor195
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399506892

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Introduction: The Japanese Racial AnomalyOn the (Ir)Relevance of Studying RaceSubject and ScopeTheoretical Framework – The Racial Middle GroundFocus and SourcesStructure of the BookPart I: Race in the Japanese Context: Early Modern Patterns of Differentiation and the Introduction of Race in Modern Japan Chapter 1: Patterns of Differentiation in Early Modern JapanOn the Existence of Race in Early Modern JapanConfucianism and the ‘Middle Kingdom’Gender and Equality in Early Modern JapanHairy Barbarians: Ainu, Foreigners, and Japanese CivilisationChapter 2: The Translation of Race in the Meiji PeriodIntroducing Modernity: The Translation of Race in the Early Meiji PeriodAdapting the Concept of RacePart II: A Racial Middle Ground: Negotiating the Japanese Racial Identity in the Context of White Supremacy Chapter 3: Between Two Races – The Birth of the Racial Middle Ground between Japan and the WestJapan and the Standard of Civilisation: The Problem of Race against CivilisationJapan, the West, and the Racial Middle GroundRacial pessimism and the Survival of the FittestChapter 4: Two Wars and First Successes: From the Port Arthur Massacre to the Treaty of PortsmouthEarly Benefits of the Racial Middle Ground: The Port Arthur Massacre‘Yellow’ Fears of ‘Yellow Peril’: Race and the Russo-Japanese War Agents of the Racial Middle Ground Chapter 5: Further Successes and the Limits of the Racial Middle Ground – The California Crisis Becoming Visible: Japanese Immigration to the United States Theodore Roosevelt and the Japanese Racial identityChapter 6: African Americans and the Racial Middle GroundThe Race at the Bottom (I): The Black Press and the California Crisis The Race at the Bottom (II): The Meaning of African Americans for JapanEarly Japanese views of African Americans The ‘Black Problem’ or How to Sell Japanese Immigrants The Human Aspect of the Racial Middle Ground Chapter 7: The End of the Racial Middle Ground The Crisis Goes on: The Alien Land Law of 1913 Losing Appeal: The West, Japan, and Alternative Visions of World Orders Embracing Yellowness: The Appeal of Pan-Asianism The collapse of the Racial Middle Ground: The Paris Peace Conference Conclusion: The Elusive Japanese Race

Tarik Merida brilliantly illustrates how modern Japan encountered the world of White supremacy and negotiated within it to create a "racial middle ground." With a sophisticated theoretical framework and detailed historical research, this provocative study overturns our common understanding of racial dichotomy to provide a new interpretation of how exceptionally complex Japanese racial identity was constructed.