Japan's Outcaste Abolition: The Struggle for National Inclusion and the Making of the Modern State

By Noah McCormack

This book begins by examining the origins and evolution of the outcaste groups within the Tokugawa status order. It then looks into the complex processes leading up to the abolition of outcaste status and the institution of legal equality in 1871 under the Meiji regime, and analyzes subsequent practices and theories of social discrimination against firstly 'former outcastes' and 'New Commoners' and then 'Burakumin'. Finally, it analyses the tactics and strategies of liberation adopted at local and national levels by anti-discrimination movements in Meiji Japan.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415501326
• ISBN13: 9780415501323
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"