A01=June A. Gordon
Author_June A. Gordon
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Buraku Area
Buraku Children
Buraku Communities
Buraku Families
Buraku Issues
Buraku Liberation
Buraku Liberation Movement
Buraku People
Buraku Problem
Buraku Youth
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Compulsory School Education
Dowa Education
educational equity research
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ethnographic case studies
High School
Japan's Invisible Race
Japan’s Invisible Race
Junior High School Degree
Kanto Area
LDP.
LPD.
marginalized communities Japan
minority rights activism
Osaka City
Osaka City University
Postwar
postwar Japanese social policy analysis
qualitative educational studies
Senior High School
social stratification Japan
Young Men
Zainichi Koreans
Product details
- ISBN 9781594515620
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Japan's attempt to project to the world an image of solid middle-class national identity is challenged by the Burakumin, an outcaste group of indigenous Japanese citizens who have been subjugated for centuries to political, economic, and religious discrimination. In the 1960s the efforts of this group and its supporters led to a 40-year national program of economic aid and educational programs designed to move these people out of poverty and increase life options. These programs, recently terminated, have left the Burakumin and other marginalized groups uncertain of their future. Based on ten years of ethnographic inquiry, Gordon's book explores the views of educators and activists caught in this period of transition after having their lives and careers shaped by the political demands of a liberation movement dedicated to achieving educational equity for the Burakumin and their disadvantaged neighbors. Gordon provides the context of the efforts to achieve the human rights of the Burakumin and the complexity of their identity in a Japanese society struggling with economic and demographic globalization.
June A. Gordon is an Associate Professor of international and comparative studies in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She conducts research on marginalized youth in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and China. Her previous books are, The Color of Teaching and Beyond the Classroom Walls. She completed a B.A. from Stanford University in East Asian studies and a Ph.D. in educational policy from the University of Washington.
