Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism

Yasuko Takezawa is Professor at the Intercultural Research Institute, Kansai Gaidai University, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University, Japan.

Takezawa, Harrison, Tanabe and their contributors present a multi-sited, transnational, and intercultural perspective on racism, shifting its emphasis away from the conventional North Atlantic interpretive frameworks to better understand its fundamental nature.

1. Introduction: Visibilizing Unseen Racisms: Race as a floating signifier between visible and invisible 2. Navigating the Reality and Deception of (In)Visible Differences 3. The Anatomy of Korea-phobia in Japan 4. "Are Children Terrorists?" Examining Racialized "National Interest" and Exclusionary Violence in the Context of the Rohingyas of Burma and the Global Perception of Refugees 5. Forms of Racialization in Odisha, India: Changing Predicaments of Dongria Kondhs and Dombs 6. Racism as Common Sense: The Social Legitimization of Killing Roma 7. Racialization and Visibility of Lithuanians during the Economic Boom Years in Iceland 8. Imitation Game? Rachel Doležal, Transracial, Transgender, and the Problem of the Color Li(n)e 9. Racialization, Criminalization and the Articulation of Multiple Alterities: A Perspective on the United States 10. The Racialization of Minorities and Majorities: Visible and Invisible