Overview
Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relations
This book retraces the process through which, at the turn of the twentieth century, the Japanese went from a racial anomaly to honorary members of the White race. It explores the interpretation of the Japanese race by Western powers, particularly the United States, during Japans ascension as a great power between 1853 and 1919. Forced to cope with this new element in the Far East, Western nations such as the U.S. had to device a negotiation zone in which they could accommodate the Japanese and negotiate their racial identity. In this book, Tarik Merida, presents a new tool to study this process of negotiation: the Racial Middle Ground.
- | Author: Tarik Merida
- | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2023
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9781399506892
- | ISBN-10: 1399506897
