Yasuko I. Takezawa
Yasuko I. Takezawa 2=竹沢泰子 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. She specializes in the study of race, ethnicity, and immigration, particularly in the United States and Japan. 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.She is the author of Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans 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, won the Shibusawa Award of the Japanese Ethnological Society.
Selected works
Books
As author
新装版 日系アメリカ人のエスニシティ- ''Breaking the Silence: Ethnicity and Redress among Japanese Americans''
As editor
Racial Representations in Asia- Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies: Conversations on Race and Racializations
- Kantaiheiyō chiiki no idō to jinshu : tōchi kara kanri e sōgū kara rentai e
- Hyokka Ryoran: Hyogo Tabunkakyōsei no 150 nen no Ayumi.