Table of Contents:
  • Caste, status, and mibun
  • Emigration from Meiji Japan
  • Negotiating status and contesting race in North America
  • Confronting White racism
  • The U.S.-Canada border
  • The U.S.-Mexico border
  • Debating the contours of citizenship
  • Reframing community and policing marriage
  • The rhetoric of homogeneity
  • Conclusion: Refracting difference
  • Timeline: Key moments in Japanese immigrants' history in North America to 1928
  • Glossary.