General and Interdisciplinary Studies of Birth and Development of "Whiteness" in American society

本研究是一项关于美国社会中“白人”的产生和发展的综合性跨学科研究。你会发现，这项研究是社会学、文化学、思想史和政治学等多个学科的产物。这项研究的参与者每周都会见面两三个小时，并讨论D·罗迪格的《白种人的工资》。在会议上，每个与会者都得到了奖励，并对“白色”这一主题提出了许多问题。然后，为了确定他们的问题并收集他们关注的材料，竹中幸二于2001年访问了伊利诺伊州的芝加哥，井川雅吾于2002年访问了纽约的埃尔迈拉，小原丰一郎于2003年访问了北卡罗来纳州的教堂山。作为这项为期三年的研究的成果，我们发表了一份报告，名为《美国社会中“Witness”的诞生和发展的一般和跨学科研究“，Takenaka撰写了”多元文化主义和“白色”在日本的研究：批判性回顾“，并讨论了日本白人研究的问题和前景。井川庆写了《哈克贝利·费恩历险记在美国的种族争论：一个白人作家对黑人的刻画》，并讨论了《哈克贝利·费恩》中对黑人的描述，同时考虑到了这本书引发的种族争议。小原写道：《选举权中的白人：19世纪美国黑人选举权问题分析》。并讨论了作为内战时代的白人，尤其是黑人选举权的建立过程。Ochiai写了《种族和记忆荣耀作为记忆的场所》，并讨论了在美国历史上对南北战争进行记忆和建立白人之间的关系。

This research is a general and interdisciplinary study concerning to the birth and development of "whiteness" in American society. You will find that this research is the product of many aspects of disciplines that are Social Studies, Cultural Studies, Intellectual History and Political Science. Participants of this research had met 2 or 3 hours every week, and discussed over D.Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness. On the meetings, every participant got incentives and had many questions to the theme of "whiteness." Then, to ascertain their questions and collect the materials for their concern, Koji TAKENAKA visited Chicago, Illinois in 2001, Masago IGAWA went to Elmira, New York in 2002, and Toyoshi OBARA visited Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2003.As a fruit of this research for three years, we published a report, General and Interdisciplinary Studies of the Birth and Development of "Wiiteness" in American Society Takenaka wrote "Multiculturalism and "Whiteness" Studies in Japan : A Critical Review," and discussed the problems and perspectives of whiteness studies in Japan. Igawa wrote "Racial Arguments in the United States over Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : The Characterization of the Black Man by a White Writer," and discussed the description of the Black Man in Huckleberry Finn keeping the racial controversy on the, racism, over the book in mind. Obara wrote "Whiteness in the Right to Vote : An Analysis in the Black Suffrage Problem in the 19^<th> Century U.S." and discussed the building process of whiteness, especially concerning to Black suffrage, as an epoch of Civil War. Ochiai wrote "Race and Memory Glory as a Site of Memory" and discussed the relationship between making memories of the Civil War and the building of whiteness in the American history.