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

本研究是关于“白”在美国社会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研究、文化研究、思想史和政治学等学科的许多方面的产物。这项研究的参与者每周见面2到3个小时，讨论D.Roediger的《白人的工资》。在会议上，每位与会者都获得了奖励，并就“白色”这个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心的资料，竹中浩司于2001年访问了伊利诺伊州的芝加哥，井川正古于2002年访问了纽约的埃尔迈拉，奥原孝司于2003年访问了北卡罗来纳州的教堂山。作为三年的研究成果，我们发表了一份报告《美国社会“白”的诞生与发展的综合与跨学科研究》，竹中撰写了《日本的多元文化主义与“白”研究：批判性回顾》，讨论了日本“白”研究的问题和前景。井川在《哈克贝利·费恩历险记的美国种族争论：白人作家对黑人的刻画》一书中讨论了《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》中黑人的描述，并考虑到种族主义的种族争议。奥巴拉撰写了《选举权中的白人化：19世纪美国黑人选举权问题分析》一书，讨论了白人化的建立过程，特别是在南北战争时期对黑人选举权的影响。落合写了《作为记忆场所的种族与记忆荣耀》，讨论了美国历史上对内战的记忆与白人的建构之间的关系。

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.