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Japan's Invisible Race: Caste In Culture and Personality

This volume is an interdisciplinary application of various social science methods and perspectives, first to a general examination of the nature of caste segregation and racist ideology, and second to the little known but significant incidence of such phenomena in Japanese cul- ture. Adequate discussion of caste segregation and demonstration of how it manifests itself in Japan require competent application of methods from more than one discipline. Advice and collaborative assistance were obtained from several colleagues, scholars specializing in Japa- nese or Indian culture who have made relevant studies of one or an- other phase of outcaste phenomena. Our interest in the Japanese outcaste as an "invisible race" grew out of our ongoing comparative research on delinquency and social de- viancy in Japan and the United States. We needed to gain some cross- cultural understanding of the effects of minority status on psychological adjustment and social adaptation, and we wondered whether the ob- vious correlations of minority status and deviant behavior apparent in the United States were also apparent in Japan.

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