Working skin : making leather, making a multicultural Japan / Joseph D. Hankins.

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Hankins, Joseph D [author.]

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TextLanguage: English, Japanese Series: Asia Pacific modern ; 13.Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520959163
0520959167

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Working skin.DDC classification:

305.5 305.5/680952

LOC classification:

HT725.J3 H255 2014eb

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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.

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.

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English and Japanese.

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.