Eika Tai

Fax: 919-515-6981

Courses - Spring 2009

FLJ 402-001 TTH 11:45-1:00 WN 17
FL 295J-010 TTH 1:30-2:45 WN 17

Office - Withers 201
Office Hours - TTH 11:00-11:130

Email - etai@social.chass.ncsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley, 1993.

Publications (selected list)

2009 Hihanteki diasupora-ron to mainoriti (Critical Diaspora Studies and Minorities).

Co-authored with Michihiko Noguchi and Kazuhiro Shima.

Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.

2008 Multiethnic Japan and Nihonjin: Looking through Two Exhibitions in 2004 Osaka.

In Japan’s Minorities: The Illusion of Homogeneity, the second edition, ed. Michael Weiner, 139-161.

New York: Routledge.

2008 Festivals as Ritual Assertions for Sustaining Diaspora Communities: Comparing Cases in the USA and Japan.

Obsidian 9(1): 107-123.

Japan Focus (http://www.japanfocus.org/products/search/2618).

2007 Korean Ethnic Education in Japanese Public Schools.
Asian Ethnicity 8(1): 5-23.

2006 Korean Activism and Ethnicity in the Changing Ethnic Landscape of Urban Japan.
Asian Studies Review 30: 41-58.

2005 Redefining Japan as “Multiethnic”: An Exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in Spring 2004.
Museum Anthropology 28(2): 43-62.

2004 “Korean Japanese”: A New Identity Option for Resident Koreans in Japan.
Critical Asian Studies 36(3): 355-382.

2003 Rethinking Culture, National Culture, and Japanese Culture.
Japanese Language and Literature 37: 1-26.

1999 Kokugo (national language) and Colonial Education in Taiwan.
positions: east asia cultures critique 7(2): 503-540.

1999 Tabunkashugi to Diasupora: Voices from San Francisco (Multiculturalism and Diaspora: Voices from San Francisco).
Tokyo: Akashi Shoten.

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Last updated, Jan. 12, 2009.