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DESCRIPTION:Admission by donation.\n\nThe Japanese immigrants who arrived i
 n the North American West  in  the late nineteenth and early twentieth cen
 turies included people  with  historical ties to Japan&rsquo\;s outcaste c
 ommunities. Andrea Geiger  examines  the history of these and other Japane
 se immigrants in the  United  States and Canada and their encounters with 
 two separate cultures  of  exclusion\, one based in caste and the other in
  race.\n\nAndrea Geiger&rsquo\;s book <strong><em>Subverting Exclusion: Tr
 anspacific Encounters with Race\, Caste\, and Borders\, 1885-1928 </em> </
 strong> will be available at the event.\n\nGeiger reveals that the experie
 nces of Japanese immigrants in  North  America were shaped in part by atti
 tudes rooted in Japan&rsquo\;s formal   status system\, mibunsei\, decades
  after it was formally abolished. In the   North American West\, however\,
  the immigrants&rsquo\; understanding of social   status as caste-based co
 llided with American and Canadian perceptions  of  status as primarily rac
 e-based. Geiger shows how the lingering   influence of Japan&rsquo\;s stri
 ct status system affected immigrants&rsquo\;   perceptions and understandi
 ngs of race in North America and informed   their strategic responses to t
 wo increasingly complex systems of   race-based exclusionary law and polic
 y.\n\nAndrea Geiger is assistant professor of history at Simon Fraser Univ
 ersity.\n\nREVIEWS of Andrea Geiger&rsquo\;s book <strong><em>Subverting E
 xclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race\, Caste\, and Borders\, 1885-1
 928</em> </strong>\n\n&ldquo\;Examining  the tangled convergence between N
 orth American racial  prejudice and the  Japanese denigration of outcastes
 \, this book is  strikingly innovative  and intensely thought-provoking. A
 ndrea Geiger&rsquo\;s  work sets a model of  historical research and analy
 sis practiced as an  extraordinary&mdash\;and  courageous&mdash\;art.&rdqu
 o\;&mdash\;Patty Limerick\, author of The Legacy  of Conquest\n\n&ldquo\;T
 his  is a deeply researched\, well written and also deeply felt book  that
   will become an important text on Asian American history in North   Ameri
 ca. The author has a sensitive\, knowing stance toward her material   that
  is much superior to a lot of the literature in Asian American   history.&
 rdquo\;&mdash\;Bruce Cumings\, University of Chicago\n\n&ldquo\;Refusing  
 historiographical silences and caricatures of homogeneity  and stasis\,  S
 ubverting Exclusion insists upon the diversity and  movement of Japanese  
 migrants in a trans-Pacific\, transnational world.  In the process\, this 
  superbly conceived study succeeds in rendering its  subjects as  emphatic
 ally human.&rdquo\;&mdash\; Gary Y. Okihiro\, author of Pineapple  Culture
 : A  History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones\n\n&ldquo\;Elegantly writ
 ten  and deeply insightful\, Geiger deftly combines an  understanding of t
 he  law and racial formation and has offered a truly  transnational histor
 y  that blends Asian\, Asian American\, and broader  issues of American  i
 mmigration history.&rdquo\;&mdash\;K. Scott Wong\, Williams  College
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SUMMARY:Speakers Series: Subverting Exclusion by Andrea Geiger
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