| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Asia Pacific modern ; 13
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Asia Pacific modern ; 13.
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| Summary |
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan's "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan's largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized because of associations with labor considered unclean, such as leather and meat production. That labor, however, is vanishing from Japan: Liberalized markets have sent these jobs overseas, and changes in family and residential record-keeping have made it harder to track connections to these industries. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Recognizing Buraku difference. Of skins and workers : producing the Buraku -- "Ushimatsu left for Texas" : passing the Buraku -- Choice and obligation in contemporary Buraku politics. Locating the Buraku : a political ecology of pollution -- A sleeping public : Buraku politics and the cultivation of human rights -- International standards and the possibilities of solidarity. Demanding a standard : Buraku politics on a global stage -- Wounded futures : prospects of transnational solidarity -- Conclusion: the disciplines of multiculturalism -- Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and back. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English and Japanese. |
| Subject |
Buraku people -- Social conditions.
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Buraku people -- Social conditions. |
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Buraku people -- Government policy.
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Buraku people -- Government policy. |
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Buraku people. |
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Multiculturalism -- Japan.
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Multiculturalism. |
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Japan. |
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Labor -- Japan.
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Labor. |
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Working class -- Japan.
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Working class. |
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Japan -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Japan -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hankins, Joseph D. Working skin. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014] 9780520283282 (DLC) 2014005898 (OCoLC)875239425 |
| ISBN |
9780520959163 (electronic book) |
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0520959167 (electronic book) |
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9780520283282 |
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0520283287 |
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9780520283299 |
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0520283295 |
| Standard No. |
40023929804 |
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