Yasuko I. Takezawa Explained

Yasuko I. Takezawa ^[1] is a Japanese cultural anthropologist who researches race, ethnicity, and immigration in the United States, Japan, and other countries. She is a professor of cultural anthropology and sociology at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of Kyoto University.

Career

Takezawa is a professor cultural anthropology and sociology at Kyoto University.^{[2] [3]} She specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and immigration, particularly in the United States and Japan.^[4] A distinguishing concern of Takezawa’s research is that race is not a modern Western construction but a construction emanating from the Middle Ages at least in Europe and Japan.^{[5] [6]}

She is the author of Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans (1995)^[7] which was one of the finalists of Victor Turner Prize of the American Anthropological Association. Its Japanese version, 新装版 日系アメリカ人のエスニシティ (Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity; 1994),^[8] won the Shibusawa Award of the Japanese Ethnological Society^[9] (now the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology).^[10]

Selected works

Books

As author

• 新装版 日系アメリカ人のエスニシティ (1994)
• Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans (1995)

As editor

• Racial Representations in Asia (2011)^[11]
• Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations (2016; co-edited with Gary Y. Okihiro)^[12]
• Kantaiheiyō chiiki no idō to jinshu : tōchi kara kanri e sōgū kara rentai e (Migration and Race in the Trans-Pacific Region) (2019; co-edited with Akio Tanabe and Ryuichi Narita)^[13]
• Hyokka Ryoran: Hyogo Tabunkakyōsei no 150 nen no Ayumi. (A History of 150 Years Old Multicultural Coexistence in Hyogo Prefecture) (2021; co-edited with Daisuke Higuchi, and Hyoto International Association)^[14]

Articles

• Takezawa. Yasuko I.. 1991. Children of inmates: The effects of the redress movement among third generation Japanese Americans. Qualitative Sociology. 14. 1. 39–56. 10.1007/bf00989533. 143681066. 0162-0436.
• Takezawa. Yasuko. 2005. Transcending the Western paradigm of race. Japanese Journal of American Studies. 16. 5–30.
• Iwabuchi. Koichi. Takezawa. Yasuko. 2015. Rethinking race and racism in and from Japan. Japanese Studies. 35. 1. 1–3. 10.1080/10371397.2015.1044153. 142467386. 1037-1397.
• Takezawa. Yasuko. 2015. Translating and Transforming 'Race': Early Meiji Period Textbooks. Japanese Studies. 35. 1. 5–21. 10.1080/10371397.2015.1041219. 1037-1397. 2433/201836. 58915205. free.
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Antiracist Knowledge Production: Bridging Subdisciplines and Regions . American Anthropologist . 2017 . 119 . 3 . 538–540 . 10.1111/aman.12921. free .
• Takezawa. Yasuko. Kina. Laura. 2019-09-02. Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encounters and Envisions of Minor-Transnationalism. Amerasia Journal. en. 45. 3. 373–376. 10.1080/00447471.2019.1721648. 212900666 . 0044-7471.
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Encounters with Transmigrants and a Navaho Chef: Yoko Inoue . Amerasia Journal . 2 September 2019 . 45 . 3 . 391–395 . 10.1080/00447471.2019.1721669. 214380689 .
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Kina . Laura . Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art . Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas . 6 July 2020 . 6 . 1–2 . 1–10 . 10.1163/23523085-00601001. free .
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Major and Minor Transnationalism in Yoko Inoue's Art . Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas . 6 July 2020 . 6 . 1–2 . 27–47 . 10.1163/23523085-00601003. 225542800 .
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Racialization and discourses of "privileges" in the Middle Ages: Jews, "Gypsies", and Kawaramono . Ethnic and Racial Studies . 10 December 2020 . 43 . 16 . 193–210 . 10.1080/01419870.2020.1745255. free . 2433/255376 . free .
• Takezawa . Yasuko . Book Review of In search of our frontier: Japanese America and settler colonialism in the construction of Japan's borderless empire . Ethnic and Racial Studies . 19 February 2021 . 44 . 3 . 520–522 . 10.1080/01419870.2020.1759812. 219437090 .

External links

• • Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization
• Yasuko Takezawa, Institute of Research in Humanities Kyoto University

Notes and References

1. Web site: Takezawa, Yasuko I.. 2020-10-02. WorldCat Identities.
2. Web site: 竹沢 泰子 教授 – Professor TAKEZAWA, Yasuko . . ja . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200626074528/http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/zinbun/members/takezawa.htm . 26 June 2020.
3. News: 2020-07-07. そこが聞きたい 米黒人暴行死の背景 旧居住区政策、格差なお. 毎日新聞. 2020-08-19.
4. Web site: Curriculum Vitae | TAKEZAWA, Yasuko (Kyoto University, Japan).
5. Takezawa . Yasuko . Racialization and discourses of "privileges" in the Middle Ages: Jews, "Gypsies", and Kawaramono . Ethnic and Racial Studies . 2 December 2020 . 43 . 16 . 193–210 . 10.1080/01419870.2020.1745255 . free . 2433/255376 . free .
6. Web site: Takezawa . Yasuko . Race Should be Discussed and Understood Across the Globe . 2020-08-26.
7. Leonard. Kevin Allen. 1995. Review of Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity. The Western Historical Quarterly. 26. 4. 530. 10.2307/970866. 970866. 0043-3810.
8. Book: Takezawa . Yasuko . Nikkei amerikajin no esunishiti : kyōsei shūyō to hoshō undō ni yoru hensen（新装版 日系アメリカ人のエスニシティ） . May 2017 . Tōkyōdaigakushuppankai (東京大学出版会). Tōkyō . 978-4-13-050191-0 . 2020-09-02.
9. Web site: 澁澤賞受賞者一覧 . www.sfes.jp . 2020-09-02.
10. Web site: Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology's Homepage . www.jasca.org.
11. Book: Takezawa. Yasuko. Racial representations in Asia. 2011. Kyoto University Press. 978-1920901585. Kyoto.
12. Tamai. Lily Anne Welty. 2017. Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations eds. by Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro. Journal of Asian American Studies. en. 20. 3. 472–474. 10.1353/jaas.2017.0044. 149420826. 1096-8598.
13. Book: Kantaiheiyo chiki no ido to jinshu : Tochi kara kanri e sogu kara rentai e.. January 2020. Kyotodaigakugakujutsushuppankai. Akio Tanabe, Yasuko Takezawa, Ryuichi Narita, 明生 田辺, 泰子 竹沢, 竜一 成田. 978-4-8140-0248-1. 1140704493.
14. Web site: 公益財団法人兵庫県国際交流協会. 「百花繚乱 ひょうごの多文化共生150年のあゆみ」の発行. 2021-02-17. 公益財団法人兵庫県国際交流協会. ja.