Dr Natalia Doan writes in the Journal of Social History about how perceptions of seventeen-year-old samurai and 1860 Japanese Embassy member Tateishi Onojirō's interracial romantic encounters with American women challenged antebellum hierarchies of race, masculinity, and power within the United States.
Natalia Doan, “Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy,” Journal of Social History (2020).