Japan's Invisible Race Caste in Culture and Personality.

Modern Japanese share a myth to the effect that they harbor in their midst an inferior race less ""human"" than the stock that fathered their nation as a whole. These pariahs, numbering more than two million, are segregated by caste just as firmly as the Negro is in the United St...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagatsuma, Hiroshi
Other Authors:	De Vos, George
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:	Publications of the Center for Japanese and Korean Studies.
Subjects:	Buraku people. Caste > Japan. Buraku people Caste Japan
Online Access:	Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents:

Intro
CONTRIBUTORS
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Part One Caste in Japan: A Descriptive Cultural Analysis
SECTION I. Historical Perspective
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. A History of the Outcaste: Untouchability in Japan
SECTION II. Attempts at Political and Social Solutions to the Outcaste Problem
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. Emancipation: Growth and Transformation of a Political Movement
CHAPTER 3. Postwar Political Militarice
CHAPTER 4. Non-Political Approaches: The Influences of Religion and Education
SECTION III. Ethnographic Studies of the Japanese Outcastes
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 5. The Ecology of Special Buraku
CHAPTER 6. A Traditional Urban Outcaste Community
CHAPTER 7. The Social Persistence of Outcaste Groups
CHAPTER 8. Buraku Relations and Attitudes in a Progressive Farming Community
CHAPTER 9. Little-Known Minority Groups of Japan
CHAPTER 10. Japan's Outcastes in the United States
SECTION IV. Psychological Perspectives
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 11. Socialization, Self-Perception, and Burakumin Status
CHAPTER 12. Group Solidarity and Individual Mobility
CHAPTER 13. Minority Status and Attitudes Toward Authority
SECTION V. Caste in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Organizational Components
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 14. Structure and Function of Caste Systems
CHAPTER 15. Concomitants of Caste Organization
SECTION VI. Motivational Components of Caste
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 16. Essential Elements of Caste: Psychological Determinants in Structural Theory
CHAPTER 17. Toward a Cross-Cultural Psychology of Caste Behavior
Bibliography
Index

Japan's Invisible Race Caste in Culture and Personality.

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