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Cover of Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality, by George DeVos and Hiroshi Wagatsuma
 

George DeVos
and Hiroshi Wagatsuma

Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality

Berkeley, University of California Press, 1966.

HT725.J3.D4 Anthropology Library

"The final chapters 'develop two theoretical propositions: first, that in personality structures as well as in the social structure itself, there are determinants of behavior in particular cultures that permit a definition of caste as a type of expressive social behavior; and second, that racism can be defined as a particular form of caste ideology."

From: Douglas G. Haring 1967 review of "Japan's Invisible Race: Caste in Culture and Personality."
Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, p. 495-496.

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