{"id":14083,"date":"2016-07-09T20:03:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T06:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2016-07-11T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:48:01","slug":"book-embedded-racism-japans-visible-minorities-and-racial-discrimination-lexington-press-2016-now-out-early-in-paperback-49-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"Book &#8220;Embedded Racism:  Japan&#8217;s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination&#8221; (Lexington Press 2016) now out early in paperback: $49.99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Books, eBooks, and more from Dr. ARUDOU, Debito (click on icon):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11452\" title=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guidebookcover.jpg\" alt=\"Guidebookcover.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/japaneseonlyebookcovertext-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"japaneseonlyebookcovertext\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/handbook.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1298\" title=\"Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Handbook2ndEdcover.jpg\" alt=\"Handbook for Newcomers, Migrants, and Immigrants to Japan\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/inappropriate.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8577\" title=\"inappropriatecoverthumb150x226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/inappropriatecoverthumb150x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/japaneseonly.html#japanese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1700\" title=\"jobookcover\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jobookcover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\u300c\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30cb\u30fc\u30ba\u30fb\u30aa\u30f3\u30ea\u30fc\u3000\u5c0f\u6a3d\u5165\u6d74\u62d2\u5426\u554f\u984c\u3068\u4eba\u7a2e\u5dee\u5225\u300d\uff08\u660e\u77f3\u66f8\u5e97\uff09\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemabstruso.de\/strawberries\/main.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2735\" title=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/sourstrawberriesavatar.jpg\" alt=\"sourstrawberriesavatar\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?cat=32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4921\" title=\"debitopodcastthumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/debitopodcastthumb.jpg\" alt=\"debitopodcastthumb\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=12473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FodorsJapan2014cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"FodorsJapan2014cover\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nUPDATES ON TWITTER: arudoudebito<br \/>\nDEBITO.ORG PODCASTS on iTunes, subscribe free<br \/>\n&#8220;LIKE&#8221; US on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/debitoorg<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embeddedrcsmJapan\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/embeddedrcsmJapan<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/handbookimmigrants<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JapaneseOnlyTheBook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BookInAppropriate<\/a><br \/>\nIf you like what you read and discuss on Debito.org, please consider helping us stop hackers and defray maintenance costs with a little donation via my webhoster:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamhost.com\/donate.cgi?id=17701\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.newdream.net\/donate4.gif\" alt=\"Donate towards my web hosting bill!\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>All donations go towards website costs only. Thanks for your support!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hi Blog. Sales of book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Embedded-Racism-Visible-Minorities-Discrimination\/dp\/1498513921\/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=\" target=\"_blank\">Embedded Racism: Japan&#8217;s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination<\/a>&#8221; (Lexington Books, November 2015) in hardcover have been outstanding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/embeddedracismcover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/embeddedracismcover.jpg\" alt=\"embeddedracismcover\" width=\"242\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/embeddedracismcover.jpg 761w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/embeddedracismcover-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.debito.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/embeddedracismcover-649x1024.jpg 649w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In less than a year after being published, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/embedded-racism-japans-visible-minorities-and-racial-discrimination\/oclc\/921240377&amp;referer=brief_results\">WorldCat says as of this writing that 83 of the world&#8217;s major academic libraries worldwide (including Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton<\/a>) already have it in their collections.<\/p>\n<p>Now my publisher has brought it out in paperback early for classroom use (it usually takes a year or two before that happens). Price: Less than half the hardcover price, at $49.99. \u00a0It currently <a href=\"http:\/\/rowman.com\/Catalogs\/LXSOCIO16\/mobile\/index.html#p=32\" target=\"_blank\">occupies the first\u00a0spot of Lexington&#8217;s\u00a0Sociology Catalog this year under Regional Studies: \u00a0Asia<\/a> (page 33).<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8217;s your chance to get a copy, either <a href=\"https:\/\/rowman.com\/ISBN\/9781498513913\/Embedded-Racism-Japan's-Visible-Minorities-and-Racial-Discrimination\" target=\"_blank\">from the publisher directly<\/a> or from outlets such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Embedded-Racism-Visible-Minorities-Discrimination\/dp\/1498513921\/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a>. Read the research I spent nearly two decades on, which earned a Ph.D., and has for the first time 1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2015\/11\/01\/issues\/tackle-embedded-racism-chokes-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">generated talk within Japanese Studies of a new way of analyzing racism in Japan (with a new unstudied minority called &#8220;Visible Minorities<\/a>&#8220;), and 2) <a href=\"http:\/\/openscholarship.wustl.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1552&amp;context=law_globalstudies\" target=\"_blank\">applied Critical Race Theory to Japan and found that the lessons of racialization processes (and White Privilege) still apply to a non-White society (in terms of Wajin Privilege).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the book that finally exposes the discrimination in Japan by physical appearance as a racialization process, and how the people who claim that &#8220;Japan has only one race, therefore no racism&#8221; are quite simply wrong. \u00a0Further, as the book argues\u00a0in the last chapter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/community\/2015\/11\/01\/issues\/tackle-embedded-racism-chokes-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\">if this situation is not resolved, demographically-shrinking Japanese society faces a bleak future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/embeddedracism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Embedded Racism: Japan&#8217;s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination<\/a>.&#8221; Now out in paperback on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Embedded-Racism-Visible-Minorities-Discrimination\/dp\/1498513921\/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> and at Lexington Books. Dr. ARUDOU, Debito<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you like what you read on Debito.org? \u00a0Want to help keep the archive active and support Debito.org&#8217;s activities? \u00a0We are celebrating Debito.org&#8217;s 20th Anniversary in 2016, so please consider donating a little something. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/?p=13748\">More details here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of book &#8220;Embedded Racism: Japan&#8217;s Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination&#8221; (Lexington Books, November 2015) in hardcover have been outstanding.  In less than a year after being published, WorldCat says as of this writing that 83 of the world&#8217;s major academic libraries worldwide (including Stanford, Cornell, UC Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton) already have it in their collections.<\/p>\n<p>Now my publisher has brought it out in paperback early for classroom use (it usually takes a year or two before that happens). Price: Less than half the hardcover price, at $49.99.  It currently occupies the first spot of Lexington&#8217;s Sociology Catalog this year under Regional Studies:  Asia (page 33).<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8217;s your chance to get a copy, either from the publisher directly or from outlets such as Amazon.com. Read the research I spent nearly two decades on, which earned a Ph.D., and has for the first time 1) generated talk within Japanese Studies of a new way of analyzing racism in Japan (with a new unstudied minority called &#8220;Visible Minorities&#8221;), and 2) applied Critical Race Theory to Japan and found that the lessons of racialization processes (and White Privilege) still apply to a non-White society (in terms of Wajin Privilege).<\/p>\n<p>Get the book that finally exposes the discrimination in Japan by physical appearance as a racialization process, and how the people who claim that &#8220;Japan has only one race, therefore no racism&#8221; are quite simply wrong.  Further, as the book argues in the last chapter, if this situation is not resolved, demographically-shrinking Japanese society faces a bleak future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,18,34,35,52,20,5,12,4,10,14,16,13,60,53,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embedded-racism","category-academia","category-exclusionism","category-good-news","category-hate-speech","category-history","category-human-rights","category-immigration-assimilation","category-japanese-government","category-japanese-policeforeign-crime","category-japanese-politics","category-labor-issues","category-media","category-nj-voices-ignored","category-unsustainable-japanese-society","category-victories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debito.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}