“Racial Representations of Japanese/Asian Americans”
Days: January 8-10, 2011
Places: Tokyo Office of Kyoto University, Shinagawa, Tokyo/ Campus Innovation Center, Tamachi, Tokyo/ Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Places: Tokyo Office of Kyoto University, Shinagawa, Tokyo/ Campus Innovation Center, Tamachi, Tokyo/ Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
January 8 (Sat), 2011, 10:00-17:00 Tokyo Office of Kyoto University, Shinagawa, Tokyo | ||
| 10:00-10:10 | Introduction: Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto University) | |
| 10:10-11:00 | Gary Okihiro (Columbia University) “Asian/Japanese Americans and the U.S. Social Formation” | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Fuminori Minamikawa (Ritsumeikan University) “Vernacularizing Racism: Japanese Immigrants and the Language of Race” | |
| 11:50-13:10 | Break | |
| 13:10-14:00 | Michael Omi (University of California, Berkeley) “The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Representations of Japanese/Asian Americans in Contemporary Sociological Theory” | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Sachiko Kawakami (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies) “Postcolonial Nihonmachi: Commodifying Racial Differences in the Age of Globalization” | |
| 14:50-15:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:10-16:00 | Mari Matsuda (University of Hawaii, Manoa) “Japanese Americans and Progressive Political Identity: Intergenerational Portraits” | |
| 16:00- | Open Discussion Commentators: Eiichiro Azuma (University of Pennsylvania) Masumi Izumi (Doshisya University) | |
| (Reception to be followed) | ||