Presentation and discussion of Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism, with Yasuko Takezawa.

Yasuko Takezawa will present the aim and a summary of Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism (Y. Takezawa, F. Harrison, and A. Tanabe ed. Routledge), just published in January 2025. Racism is most often understood within Euro-American paradigms, and its importance in other contexts is often less visible. By focusing on the space between the visible and the invisible, this book assesses the dynamics by which invisible differences are made visible, and by which visible differences make other differences invisible. In so doing, the book promotes a decentering of Western-centric frameworks and elucidates continuities and discontinuities from past eras of racial antagonism and conflict.

Yasuko Takezawa is Professor at Kansai Gaidai University and Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University.