EAPSI: The African-American Experience of Race in Japan

EAPSI：非裔美国人在日本的种族经历

• 批准号: 1714017
• 负责人: LaTeeka Gray
• 金额: $ 0.54万
• 依托单位: Gray LaTeeka E
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1714017&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAPSI; African; American; Experience; Race

This project will collect social network survey data to analyze the community structure of an American group in Japan. The award will support research to assess how American minorities maintain connections among themselves, form bonds outside the group, and establish bilateral relationships. African-Americans and the Japanese have interacted socially and politically across American and Japanese national borders for over a century, particularly during crucial periods of U.S.-Japan relations and internal national social and political movements. This study will contribute to discussions of American migration and international interaction, as well as interdisciplinary work on global migration, social networks, and minoritization. This project will be conducted under the mentorship of Dr. John G. Russell of Gifu University. As a prominent scholar, whose work focuses of the representation and history of Blacks in Japan, Dr. Russell's contribution to this project will be invaluable. In addition to data on community structure, the researcher will gather interviews and ethnographic data to elaborate and enrich the findings of more quantitative research methods. Using social network and cultural consensus analyses, this project will outline the structure of the African-Americans' social network in Japan and the ideological barriers that appear within and influence this structure. Ethnographic data will be collected on issues surrounding the reminoritization of this population in a nation that has a national narrative of homogeneity. Cultural consensus analysis will provide access to these boundaries within the community allowing for a richer description of why individuals are connecting, clustering, or distancing from each other in a way that social network data cannot. This award, under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program, supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

该项目将收集社交网络调查数据，以分析一个在日本的美国团体的社区结构。该奖项将支持评估美国少数民族如何在他们之间保持联系，在群体外建立联系，以及建立双边关系的研究。一个多世纪以来，非裔美国人和日本人跨越美国和日本的国界进行了社会和政治互动，特别是在美日关系和国内国家社会和政治运动的关键时期。这项研究将有助于对美国移民和国际互动的讨论，以及关于全球移民、社会网络和小型化的跨学科工作。该项目将在岐阜市大学的约翰·G·罗素博士的指导下进行。作为一位杰出的学者，他的工作重点是日本黑人的代表性和历史，罗素博士对这一项目的贡献将是无价的。除了关于社区结构的数据外，研究人员还将收集访谈和人种学数据，以阐述和丰富更多量化研究方法的发现。利用社会网络和文化共识分析，这个项目将勾勒出日本非裔美国人的社会网络的结构，以及在这种结构中出现并影响这种结构的意识形态障碍。将收集关于在一个有着同质性国家叙事的国家中的这一人口的怀旧问题的人种学数据。文化共识分析将提供对社区内这些边界的访问，从而能够更丰富地描述为什么个人以社交网络数据无法做到的方式相互联系、聚集或疏远。该奖项根据东亚和太平洋夏季学院计划，支持一名美国研究生的暑期研究，由NSF和日本科学促进会共同资助。