Yasuko Takezawa
2011
Though there is no biological validity to race, it continues to play a central role in various aspects of our daily lives. What, then, generates and reinforces the reality of race, and in what ways? In order to explore these questions, this book examines racial representations from both scientific and humanistic perspectives, taking into account both historical and contemporary views. This incisive anthology is the product of an interdisciplinary collaboration among scholars whose backgrounds vary from Japan to Korea, Singapore, Germany, Israel/Iraq, and the United States. The discussion consists of studies in history, literature, sociology, cultural anthropology, and genetics, while the primary focus is on racial representations in Asia. This book elucidates issues and phenomena that have been neglected or marginalized in the literature on racial representation, and serves to broaden our understanding both in the theoretical and empirical realms. Looking at these phenomena, we realize that racism has become increasingly obscure and harder to identify and articulate, thus posing the question: are we really beyond race and heading towards a future of integration?
Color Photographs
List of Figures, Tables, Photographs and List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction by Yasuko Takezawa
1 Toward a New Approach to Race and Racial Representations: Perspectives from Asia by Yasuko Takezawa
2 Stereotype, Representation, and the Question of the Real: Some Methodological by Proposals Ella Shohat
3 Markers of the ‘Invisible Race’: On the Film Hashi No Nai Kawa by Midori Kurokawa
4 Changing Faces: Colonial Rule in Korea and Ethnic Characterizations by Sung Yup Lee
5 Blood, Land, and Conversion: Mestizoness and the Politics of Belonging in Jose Angliongto’s The Sultanate by
Caroline S. Hau
6 New Arts, New Resistance: Asian American Artists in the ‘Post-race’ Era by Yasuko Takezawa
7 Race as Ricorso: Blackface(s), Racial Representation, and the Transnational Apologetics of Historical Amnesia
in the United States and Japan by John G. Russell
8 Toward an Analysis of Global Blackness: Race, Representation, and Jamaican Popular Culture in Japan by Marvin
D. Sterling
9 Effects of Human Migration on Genome Diversity in East Asia by Hiroki Oota and Mark Stoneking
10 The Role of Molecular Genetics in the Shifting Boundaries of Human Taxonomies by Troy Duster
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
