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.

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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]

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As author edit

  • 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 edit

  • 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]

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References edit

  1. ^ "Takezawa, Yasuko I." WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
  2. ^ "竹沢 泰子 教授 – Professor TAKEZAWA, Yasuko". Kyoto University (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 26 June 2020.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Curriculum Vitae | TAKEZAWA, Yasuko (Kyoto University, Japan)".
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Takezawa, Yasuko. "Race Should be Discussed and Understood Across the Globe" (PDF). Retrieved 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. doi:10.2307/970866. ISSN 0043-3810. JSTOR 970866.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "澁澤賞受賞者一覧". www.sfes.jp. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
  10. ^ "Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology's Homepage". www.jasca.org.
  11. ^ Takezawa, Yasuko (2011). Racial representations in Asia. Kyoto: Kyoto University Press. ISBN 978-1920901585.
  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. 20 (3): 472–474. doi:10.1353/jaas.2017.0044. ISSN 1096-8598. S2CID 149420826.
  13. ^ 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)
  14. ^ 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.

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