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Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's "Yellow Cabs"

Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's "Yellow Cabs" T i research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the East West Center, and the hs Japan Foundation. I wish to thank Takie S. Lebra, Rob Wilson, Iwata Taro, John Russell, Marilyn Ivy, and the other editors of for their close and critical readings of earlier drafts. 1 . Please note that ”yellow cab” is a derogatory label. It is used in this paper only for the sake of economy. 1994, 6: 465-478 01994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0899-2363/94/0603-03$01.OO Publlc Culture This article examines the larger racial and national ideologies that inform the yellow cab discourse.’ Ethnographic research on the Japanese media phenomenon of yellow cabs has provided the opportunity to study these “” motivating the behavior and shaping the rhetoric of my young female informants and their male detractors. The more I observe the yellow cabs and the rhetoric surrounding them, the more I am convinced that they pose a challenge to a type of contemporary Western theory which celebrates the “creativity,” “chaos,” and “liberation”to be found at points of interracial, intercultural, transnationalcontact on the postmodern borderlands. The sexual encounters between this population of young Japanese women and their non-Japanese partners, as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Public Culture Duke University Press

Intimate Ideologies: Transnational Theory and Japan's "Yellow Cabs"

Kelsky, Karen
Public Culture , Volume 6 (3) – Apr 1, 1994
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Copyright 1994 by Duke University Press
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0899-2363
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10.1215/08992363-6-3-465
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T i research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the East West Center, and the hs Japan Foundation. I wish to thank Takie S. Lebra, Rob Wilson, Iwata Taro, John Russell, Marilyn Ivy, and the other editors of for their close and critical readings of earlier drafts. 1 . Please note that ”yellow cab” is a derogatory label. It is used in this paper only for the sake of economy. 1994, 6: 465-478 01994 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0899-2363/94/0603-03$01.OO Publlc Culture This article examines the larger racial and national ideologies that inform the yellow cab discourse.’ Ethnographic research on the Japanese media phenomenon of yellow cabs has provided the opportunity to study these “” motivating the behavior and shaping the rhetoric of my young female informants and their male detractors. The more I observe the yellow cabs and the rhetoric surrounding them, the more I am convinced that they pose a challenge to a type of contemporary Western theory which celebrates the “creativity,” “chaos,” and “liberation”to be found at points of interracial, intercultural, transnationalcontact on the postmodern borderlands. The sexual encounters between this population of young Japanese women and their non-Japanese partners, as

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Published: Apr 1, 1994

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