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Whiteness Analysed: An Empirical Study of the Multicultural Societies in the Commonwealth Caribbean

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02034
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Area studies
Research InstitutionOtsuma Women's University

Principal Investigator

ITO Michiru  大妻女子大学, 国際センター, 講師 (70768019)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Keywords白人性 / カリブ / オーラルヒストリー / トリニダード / バルバドス / ジャマイカ / アイデンティティ / カリブ海 / 社会学 / 多文化共生
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research seeks to produce knowledge of identity as European-descended white minority in the Caribbean islands of Trinidad, Barbados and Jamaica. Based on the interviews to participants who are subjectively and objectively white, as a means of creating oral history, major findings are as follows:
1. many of the whites of the three islands enjoy socioeconomic privileges and elite status; 2. In Barbados, they do not show their disagreement towards interracial marriage or interracial children; 3. In Trinidad, they are proud of being white which is superior form of racial identity, and insist on their racial purity as white. On contrary, in Barbados and Jamaica, they have weak attachment to white hegemony, and recognise their interracial family background; 4. The younger generations tend to deny the existence of white privilege and racism in order to assimilate into the majority of the society, which is non-white, yet admit they take advantage of whiteness in everyday life.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究で収集した、旧英領カリブのヨーロッパ系市民が多文化社会で少数派としてどのような経験を通じてアイデンティティを構築してきたのかという個人の語りは、未だ系統的な調査研究が僅少であるカリブ海地域の白人性研究に革新的な前進をもたらす貴重なデータである。同時に、白人性を構成する歴史・ジェンダー・エスニシティ・クレオール化などの複合的学術分野に貢献することができた。
本研究は、異なるものへの優位意識や差別意識の構造を理解しようとする点において、特に異文化への寛容という文脈で、差別や紛争のない多文化共生社会を実現するために、どの要素が役立つのか、グローバル化が進む我が国に新たな方向性を示すことができる。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] White identity in the Caribbean2020

    • Author(s)
      Ito, Michiru
    • Journal Title

      Research Outreach

      Volume: 113 Pages: 102-105

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Questioning Whiteness: “Who is white?” ―A case study of Barbados and Trinidad―2019

    • Author(s)
      Ito, Michiru
    • Journal Title

      International Journal of Human Culture Studies

      Volume: 29 Pages: 129-137

    • NAID

      130007726483

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report 2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 旧英領カリブ海地域における白人性の多様性-バルバドスとトリニダードの比較-2018

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる
    • Journal Title

      人間生活文化研究

      Volume: 28 Pages: 660-695

    • NAID

      130007683955

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] カリブ社会のグローバル化とグローカル化-トリニダードのカーニバルを事例に-2018

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる
    • Journal Title

      人間生活文化研究

      Volume: 28 Pages: 721-730

    • NAID

      130007684038

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] トリニダードとバルバドスにおける白人性の比較2018

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる
    • Journal Title

      人間生活文化研究

      Volume: 28

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] White Identity in the Caribbean2020

    • Author(s)
      Ito, Michiru
    • Organizer
      UWI Public Lecture
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Questioning whiteness: ‘Who is white?’ in Barbados and Trinidad”2018

    • Author(s)
      Ito, Michiru
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Caribbean Literature
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Construction and Reproduction of Whiteness in Barbados2017

    • Author(s)
      Ito, Michiru
    • Organizer
      Barbados Hostorians Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] トリニダードのヨーロッパ系社会の構成2017

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる
    • Organizer
      Island Buddy Talks
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] 「第11章 ヨーロッパからの労働移民ープアー・ホワイトの導入」『カリブ海世界を知るための70章』2017

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる (国本伊代編)
    • Total Pages
      4
    • Publisher
      明石書店
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 「第26章 環カリブ海地域のシリア・レバノン系社会」『カリブ海世界を知るための70章』2017

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる (国本伊代編)
    • Total Pages
      4
    • Publisher
      明石書店
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 「第27章 環カリブ海地域のヨーロッパ系白人」『カリブ海世界を知るための70章』2017

    • Author(s)
      伊藤みちる (国本伊代編)
    • Total Pages
      4
    • Publisher
      明石書店
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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