Yasuko I. Takezawa
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
As author
As editor
- Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations (2016; co-edited with Gary Y. Okihiro)[11] ISBN 9780824887421
- Racial Representations in Asia (2011)[12] ISBN 9784876985517
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.
References
- "Takezawa, Yasuko I." WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
- http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/zinbun/members/takezawa.htm
- "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.
- http://takezawa.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/vitae_en
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Takezawa, Yasuko (2011). Racial representations in Asia. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. ISBN 978-1920901585.
External links
- Yasuko I. Takezawa publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization
- Yasuko Takezawa, Institute of Research in Humanities Kyoto University