Making Leather, Making a Multicultural Japan
by
Joseph D. Hankins
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2014
Since the 1980s, arguments for a multicultural Japan have gained considerable currency against an entrenched myth of national homogeneity. Working Skin enters this conversation with an ethnography of Japan’s "Buraku" people. Touted as Japan’s largest minority, the Buraku are stigmatized...