CHAPTER 6: Negotiating the Boundaries of Race, Caste, and Mibun Meiji-era Diplomatic and Immigrant Responses to North American Categories of Exclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Note to the Reader ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. TRANS-PACIFIC Japanese American Studies
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: ORIENTATION
8. CHAPTER 1: Shifting Grounds in Japanese American Studies Reconsidering “Race” and “Class” in a Trans-Pacific Geopolitical-Historical Context 13
9. PART II: RACIALIZATIONS
10. CHAPTER 2: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being The Contemporary Racialization of Japanese/ Asian Americans 39
11. CHAPTER 3: Negotiating Categories and Transgressing (Mixed-) Race Identities The Art and Narratives of Roger Shimomura, Laura Kina, and Shizu Saldamando 60
12. PART III: COMMUNITIES
13. CHAPTER 4: Trans-Pacific Localism and the Creation of a Fishing Colony Pre–World War II Taiji Immigrants on Terminal Island, California 85
14. CHAPTER 5: Vernacular Representations of Race and the Making of a Japanese Ethnoracial Community in Los Angeles 107
15. CHAPTER 6: Negotiating the Boundaries of Race, Caste, and Mibun Meiji-era Diplomatic and Immigrant Responses to North American Categories of Exclusion 133
16. PART IV: INTERSECTIONS
17. CHAPTER 7: Americanization and Beika Gender and Racialization of the Issei Community in California before World War II 161
18. CHAPTER 8: Sansei Women and the Gendering of Yellow Power in Southern California, 1960s–1970s 183
19. PART V: BORDERLANDS
20. CHAPTER 9: Nakayoshi Group Postwar Okinawan Women’s Articulation of Identity in America 213
21. CHAPTER 10: What Brings Korean Immigrants to Japantown? Commodifying Racial Differences in the Age of Globalization 238
22. PART VI: REORIENTATIONS
23. CHAPTER 11: The Making of a Japanese American Race, and Why Are There No “Immigrants” in Postwar Nikkei History and Community? The Problems of Generation, Region, and Citizenship in Japanese America 257
24. CHAPTER 12: Reorienting Asian American Studies in Asia and the Pacific 288
25. PART VII: PEDAGOGIES
26. CHAPTER 13: Teaching Asian American Studies in Japan Challenges and Possibilities 315
27. CHAPTER 14: Japanese American Progressives A Case Study in Identity Formation 342
28. PART VIII: DIALOGUING SUBJECT POSITIONS
29. Notes from Shinagawa, July 28–29, 2012 369
30. Thoughts on Positionality 372
31. Asian American History across the Pacific 378
32. Japanese Americans in Academia and Political Discourse in Japan 385
33. Location, Positionality, and Community Studying and Teaching Japanese America in the United States and Japan 389
34. Positions In-Between Hapa, Buddhist, and Japanese American Studies 393
35. Toward More Equal Dialogue 396
36. Contributors 401
37. Index 407