A History of Discriminated Buraku Communities in Japan
- ISBN-10
- 1898823960
- ISBN-13
- 9781898823964
- Category
- Buraku people
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Authors
- Teraki Nobuaki, Midori Kurokawa
Description
First study published in English. An intractable, divisive social problem with roots in pre-history, the ongoing discrimination against Dôwa communities (Buraku). Identified with 'unclean' work linked to specific occupations, their resulting marginalization and isolation within society as a whole remains a veiled yet contested issue.
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