2020/06/10

Takezawa gave a presentation in the virtual panel discussion on June 12, 2020, 8-9:30am

Topic: Migration and Xenophobia across the Pacific in the Time of COVID-19 Panelists: Mae Ngai (Columbia University), Nayan Shah (University of Southern California), Lok Siu (University of Califor...

2019/10/10

『環太平洋の移動と人種』出版記念シンポジウムを開催しました。

2020年1月12日（日）14時〜17時にキャンパスプラザ京都にて『環太平洋の移動と人種』（京都大学学術出版会　2019年12月刊行予定）の出版記念シンポジウムを開催しました。 ...

2019/06/12

Takezawa’s Comment on Manzanar Pilgrimage was quoted in Los Angeles Times

“Manzanar pilgrimage takes on broad themes of democracy, civil rights” By TERESA WATANABE APR 27, 2019 "Yasuko Takezawa, a professor at Kyoto University and expert in Japanese American studies, s...

2019/04/09

International Symposium “Circulations et métamorphoses du racisme et de l’antiracisme” at Kyoto Academia Forum in Marunouchi

On May 18, 2019, the international symposium “Circulations et métamorphoses du racisme et de l’antiracisme” was held at Kyoto Academia Forum in Marunouchi. Click here for more information....

2019/02/15

Presentations and Lectures (Spring 2019)

April 24-26, 2019 Presentation at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference Place: Glasgow Caledonian University (U.K.) Title: “Jews, "Gypsies," and Kawaramono (Burakumin) in Pre-mod...

2019/02/15

Yasuko Yakezawa is now an Editorial Board member of Ethnic and Racial Studies. (Link to the journal).

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2018/09/25

“New Visibilities and Invisibilities Part 2” at Kyoto University Tokyo Office.

On October 12, 2018, “New Visibilities and Invisibilities Part 2” was held at Kyoto University Tokyo Office. Lecturers were Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto University) and Akio Tanabe (University of Tokyo). ...

2018/09/20

“New Visibilities and Invisibilities Part 1” at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University.

On September 29, 2018, “New Visibilities and Invisibilities: convergent and divergent modes of racism and racialization” was held at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University. Lectur...

2017/09/14

Yasuko Takezawa gave a presentation in the 2017 AAA Annual Meeting.

On December 2017, in the 116th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, Yasuko Takezawa gave a presentation in a joint planning session with Faye Harrison* "Between Visibilities and Inv...

2017/09/14

A new article has been published (September 2017)

A new article “Antiracist Knowledge Production: Bridging Subdisciplines and Regions” has been published in American Anthropologist, Vol.119, September 2017. (DOI: 10.1111/aman.12921)...

2017/06/30

E-book of Breaking the Silence

E-book of Breaking the Silence: Redress and Japanese American Ethnicity is going to be published....

2017/06/30

The Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity New Edition (May 2017)

The New Edition of The Transformation of Japanese American Ethnicity: The Effects of Internment and Redress (in Japanese) has been published by University of Tokyo Press in May 2017. Click here for...

2017/06/28

Jinbunken Seminar “Dismantling the Race Myth” in Tokyo

Jinbunken Seminar "Dismantling the Race Myth: Hybridity" will be held at Kyoto University Tokyo Office, commemorating the publication of the book. The seminar is open to all and reservation is not r...

2017/06/19

Revised note (June 19, 2017)

The Rafu Shimpo, in spite of their promise to me not to run a revised version of the column written by P.S. which was still problematic, published the print version on June 15th. It is unclear at th...

2017/06/19

Revised note (June 19, 2017)

The Rafu Shimpo, in spite of their promise to me not to run a revised version of the column written by P.S. which was still problematic, published the print version on June 15th. It is unclear at th...

2017/06/15

The Rafu Shimpo and the columnist extended to me their apology.

A column contributed by P.S. appeared in the June 8th print edition of the Rafu Shimpo, a LA-based Japanese American community newspaper. The column contains ideas mis-attributed to me along with inac...

2017/06/15

The Rafu Shimpo and the columnist extended to me their apology.

A column contributed by P.S. appeared in the June 8th print edition of the Rafu Shimpo, a LA-based Japanese American community newspaper. The column contains ideas mis-attributed to me along with inac...

2017/04/27

Yasuko Takezawa gave a presentation at IUAES.

On May 2, 2017, Yasuko Takezawa gave a presentation at International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) held at Ottawa University, Canada. The theme was "When scholars from p...

2016/12/08

Dismantling the Race Myth is now available.

Dismantling the Race Myth, vol. 1: In(Visibility), vol.2: Knowledge, vol.3: Hybridity (in Japanese) are all now available from University of Tokyo Press. Click here for more information (Japanese). ...

2016/09/07

Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is now available.

Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations (Yasuko Takezawa and Gary Y. Okihiro eds.,) has been published by University of Hawai'i Press. For more information, c...