Japan's outcaste abolition : the struggle for national inclusion and the making of the modern state - McCormack, Noah Y. (Abingdon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2013)
Outcaste status after equality -- A status society -- Outcaste status -- Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition -- Defiled bloodlines -- Foreign origins as stigma -- The stigma of place -- Assimilation as liberation.
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Keywords: Marginality, Social -- Japan -- History; Outcasts -- Japan -- History; Social status -- Japan -- History; Social movements -- Japan -- History; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Japan -- History; Equality -- Japan -- History; Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.; Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1600-1868.; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-1912.; Electronic books