Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: The Japanese Racial Anomaly 1
5. Part I: Race in the Japanese Context: Early Modern Patterns of Differentiation and the Introduction of Race in Modern Japan
6. Chapter 1 Patterns of Differentiation in Early Modern Japan 25
7. Chapter 2 The Translation of Race in the Meiji Period 47
8. Part II: A Racial Middle Ground: Negotiating the Japanese Racial Identity in the Context of White Supremacy
9. Chapter 3 Between Two Races – The Birth of the Racial Middle Ground between Japan and the West 61
10. Chapter 4 Two Wars and First Successes: From the Port Arthur Massacre to the Treaty of Portsmouth 77
11. Chapter 5 Further Successes and the Limits of the Racial Middle Ground – The California Crisis 101
12. Chapter 6 African Americans and the Racial Middle Ground 118
13. Chapter 7 The End of the Racial Middle Ground 138
14. Conclusion: The Elusive Japanese Race 163
15. References 170
16. Index 188