Former Steering Committee Member

Dana Takagi

Professor, Sociology

1. Publications (Partial listing)

   • The Praxis of Interpretation and Theory: Participatory Action Research
     The Handbook of Research in Ethnic Studies
     edited by Tim Fong
     Alta Mira Press
     (2007)
      
   • Native Hawaiians and Social Welfare
     The Encyclopedia of Welfare and Poverty in America
     edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor
     (2004)
      
   • Buddhism and Faith-Based Approaches to Welfare
     The Encyclopedia of Welfare and Poverty in America
     edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor
     (2004)
      
   • Afterward
     Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian Pacific American Activists
     edited by Kevin Kumashiro
     Hawthorne Press
     (2004)
      
   • Forget Post-Colonialism! Self-Determination and Sovereignty in Hawaii
     Colorlines
     (1998)
      
   • The Three Percent Solution: Asian Americans and Affirmative Action
     Asian American Policy Review (Fall)
     (1996)
      
   • Situating Asians Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action
     with Prof. Michael Omi
     Representations, Summer
     (1996)
     Also reprinted in: Race and Representation in Affirmative Action
     edited by Robert Post and Michael Rogin (1997)
     Zone Books, pp. 271-280
      
   • Thinking Theory in Asian American Studies
     Co-editor (with Prof. Michael Omi)
     Amerasia Journal
     (1995)
      
   • We Should Not Make Class a Proxy for Race
     The Chronicle of Higher Education, 5 May.
     (1995)
      
   • The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics
     Rutgers University Press
     (1992, 1998)
      
   • Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America
     Amerasia: Dimensions of Desire
     edited by Russell Leong
     (1994)
     Also reprinted in: Asian American Sexualities
     edited by Russell Leong
     Routledge Press
     (1995)
      
   • Making Waves
     2nd edition
     Beacon Press
     (1997)
      
   • Queer Sociology
     edited by Steven Seidman
     (1996)
      
   • Race, Class and Gender
     3rd and 4th edition
     edited by Margaret Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins
     (1998)
      
   • Asian Americans and Post Civil Rights Politics
     Race
     edited by Roger Sanjek and Steven Gregory
     Rutgers U Press
     (1995)
      
   • Postmodernism from the Edge—Asian American Identity
     Privileging Positions
     (1995)
      
   • Asian American Identities: A Postmodern Paradox
     Social Justice, Winter
     (1993)
      
   • From Discrimination to Affirmative Action
     Social Problems vol 4
     (1990)
      

2. Other Editorial

   • American Crossroads
     Editor along with George Sanchez, George Lipsitz, Earl Lewis and Peggy Pascoe
     Part of the UC Press Book Series

3. Honors and Awards (Partial listing)

   1. UC Humanities Institute Residence Fellowship
      January-June
      1998
       
   2. Outstanding Book Award
      Gustavus-Myer Center for Human Rights
      1994 for The Retreat from Race
       
   3. National Book Award
      Association of Asian American Studies
      1993 for The Retreat from Race
       
   4. Distinguished Teaching Award
      Social Science Division, UCSC
      1993
       
   5. Post-Doctoral Fellow
      Institute of American Cultures, UCLA
      1992
       
   6. Rockefeller Fellow
      Queens College, New York City
      1992
       

   7. Invited Talks and Presentations (Partial listing)

      1. Into the 21st Century: Asian Americans and Civil Rights
         Keynote Address
         Asian Americans in Higher Education Annual Conference
         Miyako Hotel, San Francisco
         March 1996
          
      2. War of the Flea: How Asian America Transformed the Admissions Controversy
         Wellesley College
         November 9, 1995
          
      3. Assault on the Academy
         Invited Panelist, Plenary Session
         American Studies Association, Annual Meeting
         Pittsburgh
         November 10, 1995
          
      4. Presentation on Hawai6ian Sovereignty
         Asian Pacific Americans in Philanthropy Annual Meeting
         Los Angeles
         October 27, 1995
          
      5. Breathless in Hawai’i—Poststructuralism, Feminism, and Sociology Keynote Speech
         Hawai’i Sociology Association
         March 19, 1994
          
      6. Symposia at BrynMawr
         Keynote Speech
         Swarthmore and Haverford
         on Diversity
         (along with Gerald Graff and Hazel Carby)
         April 29-30, 1994
          
      7. United States Students’ Association
         Keynote Speech
         Washington D.C.
         April 1991
          
      8. Paper presentations
         American Studies Association, American Anthropological Association, Asian American Studies, Pacific Sociological Association
         1991-1995
          

       

      

      Telephone: 831-459-3140
      Email: takagi@ucsc.edu
      Website: http://people.ucsc.edu/~takagi/

      Mailing address:
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      University of California, Santa Cruz
      1156 High Street
      Santa Cruz, CA 95064
       

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