Race and Racism in Asia

Anderson, Michael R., and Sumit Guha, eds. Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia. Calcutta and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Covers broad chronological time span but usefully focuses on the theme of rights and justice.

Bulmer, Marton, and John Solomos, eds. Ethnic and Racial Studies Today. London and New York: Routledge, 1999.

Burkhardt, William R. "Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies 42, no. 3 (1983): 519–544.

Dikotter, Frank. The Discourse of Race in Modern China. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.

——, ed. The Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997.

Eberhard, Wolfram. China's Minorities: Yesterday and Today. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1982.

Figueira, Dorothy M. Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity. Albany: State University of New York, 2002. A fascinating comparison of the changing uses of the Vedic texts in both Europe and India.

Garcia, Jose L. "Current Conceptions of Racism: A Critical Examination of Some Recent Social Philosophy." Journal of Social Philosophy 28, no. 2 (fall 1997): 5–42.

——."The Heart of Racism." Journal of Social Philosophy 27, no. 1 (spring 1996): 5–45. Particularly helpful in comparing different definitions.

Goldberg, David Theo, ed. Anatomy of Racism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990. Useful for definitions of racism.

Goldberg, David Theo, and John Solomos, eds. A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.

Goodman, David G., and Masanori Miyazawa. Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype. New York: The Free Press, 1995.

Guha, Sumit. Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991. London: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Howell, David L. "Ainu Ethnicity and the Boundaries of the Early Modern Japanese State." Past and Present 142 (1994): 69–93.

——."Ethnicity and Culture in Contemporary Japan." Journal of Contemporary History 31, no. 1 (1996): 171–190. For background to issues of ethnicity during the Tokugawa vis-à-vis the Ainu.

Kotani, H., ed. Caste System, Untouchability, and the Depressed. New Delhi, India: Manohar, 1997. For a study of the caste system that conveniently gives brief snapshots looking at early India, under the British, and after independence.

Kurien, Prema A. Kaleidoscopic Ethnicity: International Migration and the Reconstruction of Community Identities in India. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002. Chapter 3, "Colonialism and Ethnogenesis," looks at how British policies invited Indian responses that solidified caste relations.

Miles, Robert, and Malcolm Brown. Racism: Second Edition. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. A useful introduction to the field.

Neary, Ian. Political Protest and Social Control in Pre-War Japan: The Origins of Buraku Liberation. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1989. For work on the treatment of the burakumin.

Pusey, James Reeve. China and Charles Darwin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. Directly addresses the impact of Darwinism on China.

Rao, R. Sangeetha. Caste System in India: Myth and Reality. New Delhi: India Publishers and Distributors, 1989.

Red Sun Publishers. China's Minority Nationalities: Selected Articles from Chinese Sources. San Francisco: Red Sun Publishers, 1977. For an interesting glance at idealized PRC presentation of their views on the matter during the Maoist era.

Sautman, Barry. "Anti-Black Racism in Post-Mao China." The China Quarterly 138 (June 1994): 413–437.

Singh, Virendra Prakash, ed., Caste System and Social Change. New Delhi: Commonwealth Publishers, 1992.

Sinha, Sachchidanand. Caste System: Myths, Reality, Challenge. New Delhi, India: Intellectual Publishing House, 1982.

Sullivan, Michael. "The 1988–89 Nanjing Anti-African Protests: Racial Nationalism or National Racism?" The China Quarterly 138 (June 1994): 438–457.

Thapar, Romila. Cultural Pasts: Essays in Early Indian History. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press, 2000. For in-depth studies on various aspects of earlier Indian history.

Weiner, Michael, ed. Japan's Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. A helpful book that presents issues edited by a leading contributor in the field.

——. The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan, 1910–1923. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press International, 1989.

——. Race and Migration in Imperial Japan. New York and London: Routledge, 1994.