Japanese Racial Identities within U.S.-Japan Relations, 1853-1919

Considers: Did race really matter? Racial ideology and political pragmatism in U.S.-Japan relations Breaks up the traditional dichotomic view of race relationsEmploys a new and more functional theoretical approach to understand the negotiated quality of not only the Japanese racial identity, but also of racial identities in generalFirmly anchors Japanese history in a global frameworkIntroduces a wide array of new Japanese sources particularly on the topic of Japanese and African American relatio