{"id":54453,"date":"2017-07-11T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54453"},"modified":"2017-07-11T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:23:23","slug":"the-discourse-of-konketsuji-racialized-representations-of-biracial-japanese-children-in-the-1950s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54453","title":{"rendered":"The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/1807\/76646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The Discourse of <\/strong><\/em><strong>Konketsuji<\/strong><em><strong>: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Toronto<br \/>\nMarch 2017<br \/>\n79 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zachery Anthony Nelson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children as featured in the print media of 1950s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan<\/a>. Attention is paid to the complex discursive process of racialization that produced knowledge of biracial Japanese under the label <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H%C4%81fu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>konketsuji<\/em><\/a> or \u201cmixed-blood child.\u201d This \u201cdiscourse of <em>konketsuji<\/em>\u201d is deconstructed and analyzed towards the aim of illustrating how it functioned to disassociate the figure of the <em>konketsuji<\/em> from the category of \u201cJapanese.\u201d This study situates <em>konketsuji<\/em> and Japanese racial identity discourse into their proper historical contexts before transitioning to an analysis of primary source material. The discourse of <em>konketsuji<\/em> is revealed as having racialized <em>konketsuji<\/em> in a plural and complex manner. Racializing statements about <em>konketsuji<\/em> referenced difference in phenotype, social origin, political potential, birth circumstances, mentality, intellect, and cultural proclivities so as to position biracial children as a group outside a normative construction of Japanese raciality.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/tspace.library.utoronto.ca\/bitstream\/1807\/76646\/3\/Nelson_Zachery_A_201703_MA_thesis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Discourse of Konketsuji: Racialized Representations of Biracial Japanese Children in the 1950s University of Toronto March 2017 79 pages Zachery Anthony Nelson A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Department of East Asian Studies University of Toronto This study examines textual representations of biracial Japanese children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8413,838,459,8],"tags":[1793,2373,27253,27251,27252],"class_list":["post-54453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-communications","category-dissertations","category-history","category-media-archive","tag-japan","tag-university-of-toronto","tag-zachery-a-nelson","tag-zachery-anthony-nelson","tag-zachery-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54454,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54453\/revisions\/54454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}