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social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > racial, ethnic, and nationality groups > Burakumin
social science subjects > sociology > race, ethnicity and migration > global perspectives > Burakumin

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Burakumin  

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  • The largest minority group in Japan, with numbers ranging from 1.5 to 3 million, the Burakumin (“the people of the hamlet”) are often known in Western scholarship as an “invisible minority.” This so-called invisibility comes from an American and European understanding of definitions of many minority groups. From this perspective, defining characteristics between minority and majority groups include racial and ethnic differences, yet the Burakumin in Japan fit neither of these categories. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society; Burakumin]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-D17K4903-P

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