ISBN:
0520959167
,
9780520959163
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Working Skin : Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Labor
;
Working class
;
Multiculturalism
;
Buraku people Social conditions
;
Buraku people Government policy
;
Electronic books
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Demanding a Standard: Buraku Politics on a Global Stage6 Wounded Futures: Prospects of Transnational Solidarity; Conclusion: The Disciplines of Multiculturalism; Epilogue: Texas to Japan, and Back; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface: Hailing from Texas; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Labor of Multiculturalism; Part One: Recognizing Buraku Difference; 1 Of Skins and Workers: Producing the Buraku; 2 ""Ushimatsu Left for Texas"": Passing the Buraku; Part Two: Choice and Obligation in Contemporary Buraku Politics; 3 Locating the Buraku: A Political Ecology of Pollution; 4 A Sleeping Public: Buraku Politics and the Cultivation of Human Rights; Part Three: International Standards and the Possibilities of Solidarity
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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