Download or read book Subverting Exclusion written by Andrea Geiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with people called variously: eta, burakumin, buraku jumin, buraku people, outcastes, or "the lowest of the low", this book examines how their experience of caste/status-based discrimination in 19th century Japan affected their experience of race-based discrimination in the West of the US and Canada in the 19th and early 20th centuries.