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On the Margins of Empire Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan
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On the Margins of Empire [electronic resource] : Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan / Jeffrey Paul Bayliss.
ISBN
1684175259
9781684175253
9780674066687 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2013. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 437 pages )
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Summary
"Provides new insights into the majority prejudices, social and political movements, and state policies that influenced the perceived positions of Koreans and Burakumin as "others" on the margins of the Japanese empire and also the minorities' views of themselves, their place in the nation, and the often strained relations between the two groups"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Series
Harvard Aast Asian Monographs ; 349
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-414) and index.
Contents
Modernity and marginalization: describing Burakumin and Koreans in Meiji Japan
Early Buraku and Korean reactions: modernity and empire from the margins
Minorities and the minority problem in the 1920s: threats to state and empire, and the liberal response
Minority activism and identity politics in the age of imperial democracy
The "minority problem" in Japan's "new order": state minority policies and mobilization for war
Minorities in a time of national crisis: Burakumin and Koreans during mobilization and war
Interminority relations, 1920-45: movements and communities
Conclusion : prejudice, policy, and proximity on the margins of empire.
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