Introduction / 1. European Views on Race and Interracial Intimacy in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / 2. Japanese Views on Race and Interracial Intimacy in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries / 3. Interracial Intimacy in Japan, 1543-1638 / 4. The Evolution of European Views on Race / 5. The Evolution of Japanese Views on Race / 6. Intimacy with the 'Green-Eyed Goblins' During the Seclusion Era, 1639-1854 / 7. Western Views on Race and Race-Mixing, 1854-1868 / 8. Japanese Views on Race and Race-Mixing, 1854-1868 / 9. Interracial Intimacy the Treaty Ports, 1854-1868 / 10. The New Anthropology and Western-Japanese Intimacy from 1868 / Afterword / Chronology
Gary P. Leupp is Associate Professor of History at Tufts University. A Specialist in the social history of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868), he has written widely on early modern Japan.
'The book is indeed interesting and readable and devoid of jargon.'
'The sections concerning Japanese views on race are
thought-provoking...Readers may enjoy it as a general introduction
to the topic, and those who wish to explore further in English may
find the bibiography helpful.' Japanese Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2,
September 2004--Sanford Lakoff
insightful interrogation of the West s protean constructions of
racial otherness and the strikingly ambiguous positioning of Asians
within them. In Interracial Intimacy in Japan, Leupp charts the
dynamics and fluidity of conceptions of race and gender and their
impact on defining interracial relations between Japanese women and
Western man. in focusing much of his analysis on constructions of
race and gender in Japan and the West, Leupp s work makes a
valuable contribution to the growing discourse of race, racism, and
race relations in Japan. he offers a well-documented analysis of
Japanese attitudes toward interracial relationships that challenges
perdurable images of Japanese as racist xenophobes while confirming
the centrality of race and place in the West. The Journal of
Japanese Studies, 31.1, 2005
Liberally illustrated and impressively written, the book casts new
light on an unusual situation in fascinating detail. It analyses
the clash of differing views on color, race, and sex and the
diverse ways in which the situation was resolved in practice. The
International History Review, 3/05
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