About the Author

Tarik Merida is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Freie Universit t Berlin. Tarik completed his PhD in 2019 and has published articles in journals including The Asia-Pacific Journal and Japan Review.

Reviews

"Tarik Merida brilliantly illustrates how modern Japan encountered the world of White supremacy and negotiated within it to create a racial middle ground." With a sophisticated theoretical framework and detailed historical research, this provocative study overturns our common understanding of racial dichotomy to provide a new interpretation of how exceptionally complex Japanese racial identity was constructed."" -Kotaro Nakano, University of Tokyo