...Robert A. Huttenback Racism, Struggle for Equality and Indian Nationalism . By Nemai Sadhan Bose . Calcutta : Firma Klm , 1981 . x , 239 pp. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index. Rs. 80 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 182 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Mari Yoshihara Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan . By Yukiko Koshiro . New York : Columbia University Press , 1999 . x, 295 pp. $18.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 747 Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S...

... of French airplanes over India; and Indian longshoremen have refused to work for the revictualling of French troop transports. There are those who will see an “Asiatic racism” in such manifestations as these. They will recall the Japanese propaganda for a “Greater Asia” which in fact would but have been...

... as a monodirectional relocation followed by locally conditioned transformation (see also S. Chan 1991, 63–66,96–97; 1990). In their most extremely America-centered versions, Asian American histories have treated these extra-American phenomena as little more than byproducts of exclusion and racism, and denounced...

... and persons, because they resonate with themes of broader historical scope and importance, have this potential to an especially high degree. Thus, in American history, where racism has been such a pervasive historical pattern, figures like Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King who helped to ameliorate...

... purposes, and often later discarded, some of the analytic devices most popular in his day, including ecological determinism, biological racism, economic geography and location theory, and Marxist modes of production. At every stage in his thinking, he sought to confound complacent teleologies, both those...

... of its originator in 1984] as that of [Michel] Foucault." And yet she observes that scholars of colonialism have still not taken up the challenge of Foucault's work in her words they are "left cold" (p. 53) when it raises a central issue in colonial studies, race and racism. In mitigation she reminds us...

... in historiographical issues. In a category labeled "colonial visions," Michael Adas, David Streckfuss, and Jean Taylor present useful, fresh treatments of specific material and general issues very much on the minds of today's students: colonialism in history, racism in colonial history, and women in colonialism...

...Rotem Kowner The Affect of Difference adds a novel and stimulating perspective to this rising discourse on racial constructions and racism in East Asia. It focuses on the manifestations of race and on its repercussions within the Japanese colonial empire over the course of more than a century...

... are not welcome. Racism and exclusion are historically and socially embedded deep within the psyche of white Australians, spawned by the fear that the world s most dispossessed people (invariably people of colour), whether refugees or Aborigines, are conspiring against them and their lifestyles (p. 279). D Cruz...

... to Southeast Asian students, another group likewise uprooted and traumatized by war. Okihiro sought, through the stories of the Japanese American students and their white advocates, to work through the complex relationships denned by racism and "antiracism" and negotiated between these collaborators...

... second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, moved to the Japanese Empire in the years before World War II to escape anti-Asian racism. Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless attempts to both document this migration and explore the way the Nisei encountered and challenged rigid, limited concepts...

... of Mongolian Identity , comes as a timely intervention and presents a fresh look from a unique perspective. Unlike most studies that focus on Western hostility toward the Chinese, Billé’s book examines such sentiments among the Mongols, who are traditionally victims or targets of Western racism themselves...

.... The argument unfolds in nine chapters and a brief conclusion. Chapter 1, which serves as the work's introduction, and chapter 2 build the conceptual scaffolding that supports later analysis. Here the authors draw attention to theories of racism, especially how it operates as a “hierarchization of difference...

... autobiographies and experiences. Kim's first-person anecdotes and observations throughout the book will be appreciated as encouragement to reflect on the readers' own resistance against, and complicity in, racism. Imperial Citizens , and the central argument implicit in its provocative title, could have been...

... imperial in nature, what is devastating in Sohi's analysis is the attention to how Indian radicals were racialized. This intervention provides an important genealogy of the U.S. racial formation of South Asians that drew on anti-black racism while simultaneously advancing a racial typology that framed...

...Catherine Ceniza Choy The title Fugitive Visions has an important dual meaning. It refers to the returning Korean adoptee as a fugitive of destruction, failed marriages, racism, and the past (p. 9). But it also refers to Trenka's intense love for music, and specifically piano, that was marred...

... . Reinventing the Filipino Sense of Being and Becoming . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press . Balibar Etienne . 1991 . “Racism and Nationalism.” In Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities , by Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein. London : Verso . Banton Michael . 1983...

...: Pantheon Books, 1986. xii, 399 pp. Illustrations, Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50. This is a study of racism in the conduct of World War II racism that was so blatantly exercised by both sides as to contribute to poor military planning and atrocious behavior. The Japanese were known...

... of interdisciplinarity that does not reproduce distinctions. Azuma also draws attention to race and questions of racism that are of central concern in understanding the institutionalization of Asian American studies and Asian studies. Finally, S onia R yang's essay engages with the problem of how imperial...