{"product_id":"embedded-racism-debito-arudou-9781793653956","title":"Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination, Second Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display \"Japanese Only\" signs, denying entry to all 'foreigners' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments to foreign applicants. Japanese police racially profile \"foreign-looking\" bystanders for invasive questioning on the street. Legislators, administrators, and pundits portray foreigners as a national security threat and call for their segregation and expulsion. Nevertheless, Japan's government and media claim there is no discrimination by race in Japan, therefore no laws are necessary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does Japan resolve the cognitive dissonance of racial discrimination being unconstitutional yet not illegal? Embedded Racism untangles Japan's complex narrative on race. Starting with case studies of hundreds of \"Japanese Only\" exclusionary businesses, it carefully analyzes the social construction of Japanese identity through laws, public policy, jurisprudence, and media messages. It reveals how the concept of a \"Japanese\" has been racialized to the point where one must look \"Japanese\" to have equal civil and human rights in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompletely revised and updated for this Second Edition (including landmark events like the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Covid Pandemic, and the Carlos Ghosn Case), Embedded Racism is the product of three decades of research and fieldwork by a scholar living in Japan as a naturalized Japanese citizen. It offers a perspective into how Japan's entrenched, misunderstood, and deliberately overlooked racial discrimination not only undermines Japan's economic future but also emboldens white supremacists worldwide who see Japan as their template ethnostate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Debito Arudou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 179365395X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781793653956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d","brand":"Debito Arudou","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981629423871,"sku":"9781793653956","price":153.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_122495a9-c269-4c34-befe-60b32f594dc8.jpg?v=1683256652","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/embedded-racism-debito-arudou-9781793653956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}