Joseph M Henning
Biographic Data
| ID | 361836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph M Henning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph M |
| FAMILY NAME | Henning |
| SIGNATURE | HENNING J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2144-3874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations
To Adopt the Principles of Freedom’: Christianity, Women’s Education, and Progress in U.S. Press Coverage of the Iwakura Mission
In U.S. press reports, the visit of Meiji Japan’s Iwakura Mission in 1872 presented both an opportunity for Americans to facilitate progress in Japan and evidence of social reform already underway there. As an opportunity, the mission served as a potential medium for American efforts to improve the Meiji government’s treatment of Japanese Christians. Many American political and religious leaders hoped to convince the mission ambassadors that free…
Ozawa v. United States, Japanese Immigration, and William Elliot Griffis
This article examines the role that William Elliot Griffis's work played in Ozawa v. United States, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1922 that Japanese immigrants were not "white persons" and therefore were ineligible to naturalized citizenship. Griffis, a prominent authority on Japan, had spent decades arguing that the Japanese were white. While Ozawa is an important case study in U.S.-Japanese relations and critical race theory, Griffis…
Very Beautiful Heathenism’: The Light of Asia in Gilded Age America”
British journalist Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879), a book-length, blank-verse poem about the life of Siddhārtha Gautama, triggered an extensive American fascination with Buddhism. Arnold’s sympathetic portrayal of the Buddha enjoyed great popularity in Britain but attracted even more admirers in the United States, where Americans bought dozens of editions. The poem’s popularity, however, also provoked a backlash. While it attracted many …
By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783
An ambitious diplomatic history, By More than Providence provides policy makers and scholars with a comprehensive survey of U.S. relations with the Asia Pacific region since the late eighteenth century. Michael J. Green, a practitioner of diplomacy as well as history, served as an Asia Pacific expert on the U.S. National Security Council staff (2001–2005). Thus he shifts occasionally to first-person narration and an insider's account in the book'…
Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Americans have never been of one mind on Japan. At various times, and on occasion simultaneously, the Japanese have been either friends or enemies, westernized Asians or oriental “others,” civilized equals or racial inferiors. Joseph M. Henning's first-rate survey of American views of Japan in the late nineteenth century makes clear that American attitudes were very complex, even contradictory, from the very beginning of the relationship. Accordi…
Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
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Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Americans have never been of one mind on Japan. At various times, and on occasion simultaneously, the Japanese have been either friends or enemies, westernized Asians or oriental “others,” civilized equals or racial inferiors. Joseph M. Henning's first-rate survey of American views of Japan in the late nineteenth century makes clear that American attitudes were very complex, even contradictory, from the very beginning of the relationship. Accordi…
Outposts of Civilization: Race, Religion, and the Formative Years of American-Japanese Relations
Very Beautiful Heathenism’: The Light of Asia in Gilded Age America”
British journalist Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia (1879), a book-length, blank-verse poem about the life of Siddhārtha Gautama, triggered an extensive American fascination with Buddhism. Arnold’s sympathetic portrayal of the Buddha enjoyed great popularity in Britain but attracted even more admirers in the United States, where Americans bought dozens of editions. The poem’s popularity, however, also provoked a backlash. While it attracted many …
By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783
An ambitious diplomatic history, By More than Providence provides policy makers and scholars with a comprehensive survey of U.S. relations with the Asia Pacific region since the late eighteenth century. Michael J. Green, a practitioner of diplomacy as well as history, served as an Asia Pacific expert on the U.S. National Security Council staff (2001–2005). Thus he shifts occasionally to first-person narration and an insider's account in the book'…
To Adopt the Principles of Freedom’: Christianity, Women’s Education, and Progress in U.S. Press Coverage of the Iwakura Mission
In U.S. press reports, the visit of Meiji Japan’s Iwakura Mission in 1872 presented both an opportunity for Americans to facilitate progress in Japan and evidence of social reform already underway there. As an opportunity, the mission served as a potential medium for American efforts to improve the Meiji government’s treatment of Japanese Christians. Many American political and religious leaders hoped to convince the mission ambassadors that free…
Ozawa v. United States, Japanese Immigration, and William Elliot Griffis
This article examines the role that William Elliot Griffis's work played in Ozawa v. United States, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1922 that Japanese immigrants were not "white persons" and therefore were ineligible to naturalized citizenship. Griffis, a prominent authority on Japan, had spent decades arguing that the Japanese were white. While Ozawa is an important case study in U.S.-Japanese relations and critical race theory, Griffis…
Japanese Racial Identities within US-Japan Relations
History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Civilization (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · History (4 works)