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Making Up Race: Notes on Buraku Literature in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Edward Fowler
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Americans have grown up with the idea of race. Race, we are taught, is real because skin color, facial features, and other bodily attributes mark a person definitively as a member of a particular race. This claim is made despite the often astonishing physical differences among people said to belong to the same race or the necessarily arbitrary line drawn between races when the visibility test fails to produce any differences (thus allowing for the possibility of “passing”).

Type
Correspondents at Large
Information
PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 5: Special Topic Comparative Racialization , October 2008 , pp. 1703 - 1706
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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