Theorizing People of Mixed Race in the Pacific and the Atlantic

Yasuko Takezawa and Stephen Small
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Yasuko Takezawa: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
Stephen Small: Department of African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-14

Abstract: The most extensive theoretic and empirical studies of people of mixed racial descent extant today have addressed nations across the Atlantic. This article reveals how this literature on people of mixed racial descent is limited in its claims to represent a “global model”. In contrast, we argue that by juxtaposing institutional factors in the Atlantic region and Japan we can expand our understanding of people of mixed racial descent across a far wider range of social and political terrains. A consideration of Japan uncovers a fascinating combination of factors impactful in the emergence of populations of mixed origins in the Pacific region more generally. By identifying this range of variables, we believe this analysis can be instructive for scholars of race focusing on the Atlantic and can contribute to a more encompassing approach for theorizing people of mixed racial descent.

Keywords: mixed race; Pacific; Atlantic; Japan; gender; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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