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Appearance
Yasuko Takezawa(竹沢泰子)is a Japanese cultural anthropologist.
- Areas of Expertise: Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, American Studies
- Fields of Research Interest: race, ethnicity, immigration studies
- Regional Expertise: U.S.A., Japan
Education [1]
- B. A. Comparative Culture, University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1981
- M. A. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar), 1985
- M. I. A. (Master of International Affairs), University of Tsukuba, Japan, 1987
- Ph. D. Anthropology, University of Washington (Fulbright Scholar), 1989
Employment History [2]
2005-present
- Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
- Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
- Associate Professor, College of International Relations/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Assistant Professor (tenured), College of International Relations/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- Visiting Senior Research Scientist (2019-present), Columbia University
- 1990-2018 Affiliate Professor (promoted from Affiliate Associate Professor in 2006), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington
- 2005-2006 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, MIT
- 2005-2006 Visiting Scholar (on a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science), Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University
- 1993-1994 Visiting Scholar (on Keidanren CBCC fellowship), Dept. of Anthropology/ Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles
- Associate Executive Vice President of Kyoto University (Public Relations, 2010-2013)
- Special Assistant to President of Kyoto University (2008-2010, 2013-2014)
- Chair, Committee on Multiculturalism, Science Council of Japan
- Executive Board Member of the Japanese Association for American Studies
- Executive Board Member of the Japanese Association for Migration Studies
- Member of the Japanese Association of Cultural Anthropology
- Member of the American Anthropological Association
- Member of the American Sociological Association
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) A-Japan Based Global Study of Racial Representations(2010-2015)
- Principal Investigator
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization(2016-2020)
- Principal Investigator
Books[3]
- Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
- Nikkei Amerikajin no Ethnicity (Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994.
- Shinsoban – Nikkei Amerikajin no Ethnicity (Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress, New Cover with a New Epilogue). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2017.
Edited and Co-edited books[4]
- Akio Tanabe, Yasuko Takezawa, and Ryuichi Narita eds. Kantaiheiyō chiiki no idō to jinshu : tōchi kara kanri e sōgū kara rentai e (Migration and Race in the Trans-Pacific Region) , Kyoto: Kyoto University Press, 2020.
- Takezawa, Yasuko and Laura Kina, Special Issue: Trans-Pacific Minor Visionsin Japanese Diasporic Art. Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA), 6:1, 2020
- Takezawa, Yasuko and Jean-Frédéric Schaub (eds.) The Zinbun Gakuhō (Journal of Humanities): Special Issue Jinshushugi / Hanjinshushugi no Ekkyō to Tenkan. (Transformation of Racism and Anti-Racism Across Borders). Kyoto: Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.
- Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations. (Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro, eds.) University of Hawai’i Press, 2016. (Paperback version published in 2020)
- Yasuko Takezawa (ed.) Dismantling the Race Myth. University of Tokyo Press.
- Vol. 1, In(Visibility): Representation of Invisible Race (Ayako Saito and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.
- Vol. 2, Knowledge: Between Science and Society (Toru Sakano and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.)
- Vol. 3, Hybridity: Beyond the Politics of “Blood” (Kohei Kawashima and Yasuko Takezawa, eds.)
- Yasuko Takezawa, ed. Racial Representations in Asia, Kyoto University Press, 2011.
- Migration Studies and Multicultural Coexistence, (The Japanese Association for Migration Studies ed.) (Editor-in-Chief: Yasuko Takezawa), Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobo, 2011.
- Yasuko Takezawa, ed. The Racial Representation and Social Reality of Race. Tokyo: Iwanami, 2009.
- Yasuko Takezawa, ed. Is Race a Universal Idea?: Transcending the Western Paradigm. Kyoto: Jimbun Shoin, 2005.
Recent Articles[5]
- “Racialization and Discourses of “Privileges” in the Middle Ages: Jews, “Gypsies”, and Kawaramono,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43:16: 193-210, 2020
- “Translating and Transforming ‘Race’: Early Meiji Period Textbooks,” Japanese Studies 35 (1), Special Issue: Rethinking Race and Racism in Japan, 2015.
- DVD BBC Racism-A History , 3 volumes. Japanese Translation Supervised by Yasuko Takezawa. Tokyo: Maruzen. 2015[2007]
Links
- Integrated Research into the Processes and Mechanisms of Racialization
- Yasuko Takezawa, Institute of Research in Humanities Kyoto University
- Yasuko Takezawa (ORCID iD 0000-0003-3900-8168)