Yasuko I. Takezawa

Japanese cultural anthropologist

Yasuko I. Takezawa (竹沢泰子, born 1957)^[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) ISBN 9784130560450
Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans (1995) ISBN 9780801429859

As editor

Racial Representations in Asia (2011)^[11] ISBN 9784876985517
Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations (2016; co-edited with Gary Y. Okihiro)^[12] ISBN 9780824887421
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] ISBN 9784814002481
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. doi:10.1007/bf00989533. ISSN 0162-0436. S2CID 143681066.
Takezawa, Yasuko (2005). "Transcending the Western paradigm of race" (PDF). 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. doi:10.1080/10371397.2015.1044153. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 142467386.
Takezawa, Yasuko (2015). "Translating and Transforming 'Race': Early Meiji Period Textbooks". Japanese Studies. 35 (1): 5–21. doi:10.1080/10371397.2015.1041219. hdl:2433/201836. ISSN 1037-1397. S2CID 58915205.
Takezawa, Yasuko (2017). "Antiracist Knowledge Production: Bridging Subdisciplines and Regions". American Anthropologist. 119 (3): 538–540. doi:10.1111/aman.12921.
Takezawa, Yasuko; Kina, Laura (2019-09-02). "Trans-Pacific Japanese Diaspora Art: Encounters and Envisions of Minor-Transnationalism". Amerasia Journal. 45 (3): 373–376. doi:10.1080/00447471.2019.1721648. ISSN 0044-7471. S2CID 212900666.
Takezawa, Yasuko (2 September 2019). "Encounters with Transmigrants and a Navaho Chef: Yoko Inoue". Amerasia Journal. 45 (3): 391–395. doi:10.1080/00447471.2019.1721669. S2CID 214380689.
Takezawa, Yasuko; Kina, Laura (6 July 2020). "Trans-Pacific Minor Visions in Japanese Diasporic Art". Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. 6 (1–2): 1–10. doi:10.1163/23523085-00601001.
Takezawa, Yasuko (6 July 2020). "Major and Minor Transnationalism in Yoko Inoue's Art". Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. 6 (1–2): 27–47. doi:10.1163/23523085-00601003. S2CID 225542800.
Takezawa, Yasuko (10 December 2020). "Racialization and discourses of "privileges" in the Middle Ages: Jews, "Gypsies", and Kawaramono". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 193–210. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1745255. hdl:2433/255376.
Takezawa, Yasuko (19 February 2021). "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. 44 (3): 520–522. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1759812. S2CID 219437090.

References

^ "Takezawa, Yasuko I." WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
^ "竹沢泰子教授 – Professor TAKEZAWA, Yasuko". Kyoto University (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 26 June 2020.
^ "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. 2020-07-07. Retrieved 2020-08-19.
^ "Curriculum Vitae | TAKEZAWA, Yasuko (Kyoto University, Japan)".
^ Takezawa, Yasuko (2 December 2020). "Racialization and discourses of "privileges" in the Middle Ages: Jews, "Gypsies", and Kawaramono". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 43 (16): 193–210. doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1745255. hdl:2433/255376.
^ Takezawa, Yasuko. "Race Should be Discussed and Understood Across the Globe" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-08-26.
^ Leonard, Kevin Allen (1995). "Review of Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity". The Western Historical Quarterly. 26 (4): 530. doi:10.2307/970866. ISSN 0043-3810. JSTOR 970866.
^ Takezawa, Yasuko (May 2017). 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）. Tōkyō: Tōkyōdaigakushuppankai (東京大学出版会). ISBN 978-4-13-050191-0. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
^ "澁澤賞受賞者一覧". www.sfes.jp. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
^ "Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology's Homepage". www.jasca.org.
^ Takezawa, Yasuko (2011). Racial representations in Asia. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. ISBN 978-1920901585.
^ 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. 20 (3): 472–474. doi:10.1353/jaas.2017.0044. ISSN 1096-8598. S2CID 149420826.
^ Kantaiheiyo chiki no ido to jinshu : Tochi kara kanri e sogu kara rentai e. Akio Tanabe, Yasuko Takezawa, Ryuichi Narita, 明生田辺, 泰子竹沢, 竜一成田. Kyotodaigakugakujutsushuppankai. January 2020. ISBN 978-4-8140-0248-1. OCLC 1140704493.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ 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". 公益財団法人兵庫県国際交流協会 (in Japanese). Retrieved 2021-02-17.