2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Historical Sociology of Multiracial Community in the United States
| Project/Area Number |
23730503
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Ritsumeikan University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | コミュニティ / 人種 / エスニシティ / アメリカ / 歴史社会学 / 多人種コミュニティ / 多文化主義 / マイノリティ |
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| Research Abstract |
This study seeks to analyze historical formation of a "multiracial community" in the United States, focusing on multiple group relations involving Japanese, Mexicans, and African Americans in Los Angeles in the late 1940s and 1950s. As a result, it clarifies that a concept of assimilation based on two-group relations between a racial minority and white cannot grasp how more than two ethno-racial groups had lived together in American city. Thus, this study proposes new concept of "multiracial community" which focuses on (1) discursive formation of ethno-racial relations in the US society, (2)interracial civic engagements in which multiple ethnoracial groups share civic political culture and participate through various associations in a local context, and (3) transnational connections between an ethnic group and its homeland.
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