BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.3517@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20120218T000000Z DTEND:20120218T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Admission by donation.\n\nThe Japanese immigrants who arrived i n the North American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth cen turies included people with historical ties to Japan&rsquo\;s outcaste c ommunities. Andrea Geiger examines the history of these and other Japane se immigrants in the United States and Canada and their encounters with two separate cultures of exclusion\, one based in caste and the other in race.\n\nAndrea Geiger&rsquo\;s book <strong><em>Subverting Exclusion: Tr anspacific Encounters with Race\, Caste\, and Borders\, 1885-1928 </em> </ strong> will be available at the event.\n\nGeiger reveals that the experie nces of Japanese immigrants in North America were shaped in part by atti tudes rooted in Japan&rsquo\;s formal status system\, mibunsei\, decades after it was formally abolished. In the North American West\, however\, the immigrants&rsquo\; understanding of social status as caste-based co llided with American and Canadian perceptions of status as primarily rac e-based. Geiger shows how the lingering influence of Japan&rsquo\;s stri ct status system affected immigrants&rsquo\; perceptions and understandi ngs of race in North America and informed their strategic responses to t wo increasingly complex systems of race-based exclusionary law and polic y.\n\nAndrea Geiger is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser Univ ersity.\n\nREVIEWS of Andrea Geiger&rsquo\;s book <strong><em>Subverting E xclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race\, Caste\, and Borders\, 1885-1 928</em> </strong>\n\n&ldquo\;Examining the tangled convergence between N orth American racial prejudice and the Japanese denigration of outcastes \, this book is strikingly innovative and intensely thought-provoking. A ndrea Geiger&rsquo\;s work sets a model of historical research and analy sis practiced as an extraordinary&mdash\;and courageous&mdash\;art.&rdqu o\;&mdash\;Patty Limerick\, author of The Legacy of Conquest\n\n&ldquo\;T his is a deeply researched\, well written and also deeply felt book that will become an important text on Asian American history in North Ameri ca. The author has a sensitive\, knowing stance toward her material that is much superior to a lot of the literature in Asian American history.& rdquo\;&mdash\;Bruce Cumings\, University of Chicago\n\n&ldquo\;Refusing historiographical silences and caricatures of homogeneity and stasis\, S ubverting Exclusion insists upon the diversity and movement of Japanese migrants in a trans-Pacific\, transnational world. In the process\, this superbly conceived study succeeds in rendering its subjects as emphatic ally human.&rdquo\;&mdash\; Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Pineapple Culture : A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones\n\n&ldquo\;Elegantly writ ten and deeply insightful\, Geiger deftly combines an understanding of t he law and racial formation and has offered a truly transnational histor y that blends Asian\, Asian American\, and broader issues of American i mmigration history.&rdquo\;&mdash\;K. Scott Wong\, Williams College DTSTAMP:20241009T014704Z SUMMARY:Speakers Series: Subverting Exclusion by Andrea Geiger URL:/en/events/2012/02/18/speakers-series-subverting-exclusion-by-andrea-ge / END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR