IBARW 3: International Racism

[keilexandra]

Thus far, what I've read of IBARW has been excellent but largely U.S.-centric. Of course, I live in the U.S. myself, but I want to point out racism all around the world. I don't feel knowledgeable enough to analyze or elaborate on the situations, but I can present them for your consideration.

• teagrl83 on the burakumin in Japanese society, who are not

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[beteio]

I don't have any personal experiences of this, but I'm thinking about Han prejudice against other minority groups [in China, of course].

[keilexandra]

Yep, that's my tentative topic for today. ;)

[teagrl83]

I wrote a little bit more at length on the burakumin in my LJ.

I'm versed in a lot of Ethnic Studies stuff (focusing on Japan and Latin America during the 1800s or so), another interesting topic would be race relations in South America. In Colombia, one of the ways that the Spanish kept control was to turn the indigenous populations against the African populations. I wonder if there's a parallel with what the US did, but if there were one, I imagine there'd be other stuff to consider, since they had a different view of how to "contain" race in the US during the 1800s.

[keilexandra]

Fixed, thanks!

[teagrl83]

Hope no one minds my two cents here. I think the issue with race and the burakumin is a little bit more complicated than the similarity between the English word "black" and "buraku" considering that burakumin have been _viewed_ as a race apart (the argument I make in my contribution to IBARW3) as early as the Meiji period, before English gained as much currency as this idea would assume.

In my research I encountered youth groups from these neighborhoods who have picked up buraku and made the buraku/black connection, but I think that's another unrelated issue to the history of their discrimination and it's not particularly pervasive from what I have observed. I could be wrong, since it's been a while.