혼혈아 외부화 프로세스와 대중문화― 경제성장기 일본사회의 혼혈아 표상

Abstract

The mixed-race representations which is disseminated in Japanese society for 20 years from the 1952 ‘Mixed-Race Controversy’ to the 1970s, when the ‘Half Discourse’ appeared after the ‘Mixed-Race Boom’ in the 1960s, have instilled in the public a fixed perception of mixed-race children. Especially from the latter half of the 1960s, when the theories about the Japanese(Nihonjinron) became very popular, a new meaning was given to the Japanese. At the same time that racialization as a single ethnic group was strengthened, mixed-race children were externalized. This paper grasped such a trend as the ‘postwar origin’ of racism in contemporary Japanese, and examined its specific characteristics through various popular cultures. As a result, this paper was able to focus on the public sympathy acting on the structure in which mixed-race children were reborn with the new concept of half in the 1970s. The memory of the occupation, which is a scar of the past, was deeply involved in the symbolic system of mixed-race children. Like the reconstruction and economic growth of Japanese society and the epidemic of Japanese theory, the restoration of sociocultural self-confidence was dominated by changes in the representation of mixed-race children. Through these originating issues of Japanese racism, this paper attempts to refute the argument that racist discrimination and prejudice in contemporary Japan just follows Western racism.