1st Edition
Race and Migration in the Transpacific
1. Introduction Yasuko Takezawa and Akio Tanabe PART I: Encounters, Entanglement, and Solidarity 2. Settler Colonialism as Encounter: On the Question of Racialization and Labor Power in the Dispossession of Ainu Lands Katsuya Hirano 3. Burakumin Emigrants to America: Historical Experience of “Racialization” and Solidarity across the Pacific Hiroshi Sekiguchi 4. From Anti-Japanese to Anti-Mexican: Linkages of Racialization Experiences in 1920s California Yu Tokunaga PART II: Empire and Effects of Categorization 5. Colonial Rule and “Category”: Policing in Colonial Singapore Takeshi Onimaru 6. The Virtualization of Race: Data Governance and Racialization in Modern India Akio Tanabe 7. Racism in Imperial and Post-Imperial Japanese Language Literature Ryuichi Narita PART III: Minor Alliance, Memory, and Affect 8. A Japanese American Critique of the Atomic Bomb and Its Up Againstness Crystal Uchino 9. The 1992 LA Uprising and the Politics of Representation: Multilayered Memories in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Kazuyo Tsuchiya 10. Unraveling and Connecting in the Transpacific: The Narratives and Work of Yoko Inoue and Jean Shin Yasuko Takezawa
Biography
Yasuko Takezawa is Professor at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University. Cultural Anthropology, Race and Ethnic Studies, American Studies.
Akio Tanabe is former Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. Anthropology, History, South Asian Studies.
"This volume reveals that Japan, the scholars based there and those who study it, is at the center of transnational race studies."---Lon Kurashige, author of Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States
