Kristin Roebuck, "Japan Reborn: Race, Sex and Eugenics from World War to Cold War"

Kristin Roebuck
Assistant Professor, Department of History; Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow, Cornell University

Moderator: David Howell
Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History; Professor of History; Acting Director, Program on US-Japan Relations, Harvard University

Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.

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Additional Resources

1. Roebuck, Kristin. "Orphans by Design: ‘Mixed-blood’ Children, Child Welfare, and Racial Nationalism in Postwar Japan."  Japanese Studies, Aug 2016.
2. Roebuck, Kristin. "Science without Borders? The Contested Science of 'Race Mixing' circa World War II in Japan, East Asia, and the West."  Association for Asian Studies, 2022.
3. Fujitani, Takashi. Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War II. University of California Press, 2011.