Dana Takagi

About

Dana Takagi is a professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz, serving since 1987. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1986, along with an M.A. and B.A. from UC Berkeley. Before her tenure at UCSC, she taught at UC Irvine in the program in social ecology. Her academic work is characterized by a commitment to empirically based research, theoretical innovation, and linking interdisciplinary knowledge to understanding the world as it is. Her research interests include inequality and identity, methods, race, theory, higher education, nationalism, and indigeneity, with a particular focus on Asian American studies, Buddhism, and philosophy. She has received numerous awards and honors, including serving as President of the Association for Asian American Studies and receiving the Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award. Her scholarly contributions include authoring books such as 'The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics' and editing works on theory and Asian American society. She actively participates in academic conferences, delivering keynote addresses and presenting papers on topics related to race, identity, and social justice.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Political science
• Gender studies
• History
• Criminology

Selected publications

• The Retreat from Race: Asian-American Admissions and Racial Politics

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1995-09-01 · 178 citations

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  By examining the debate over Asian-American admissions at such universities as Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton, Takagi explains important developments in the politics of race. Her central argument is that the controversial admissions policies facilitate a subtle but important shift away from racial and toward class preferences in affirmative action procedures. This complex and sensitive subject is carefully analyzed, and will help readers understand the intricacies of university policy and the…

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• SYMPOSIUM

  Gender & Society · 1995-08-01 · 96 citations

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  How wonderful it would be to possess theinsight to see beyond the messy, contemporary politics of race, class, and gender in order to propose “a new way of thinking about the workings of these relations” (West and Fenstermaker 1995, 9). The area of race, class, gender studies struggles with the complex question of how to think about intersections of systems of oppression of race, class, and gender. We clearly need new models that will assist us in seeing how structures of power organized around…

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• Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America

  Amerasia Journal · 1994-01-01 · 75 citations

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  (1994). Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 1-18.

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• Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities.

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1994-01-01 · 59 citations

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• Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action

  Representations · 1996-01-01 · 49 citations

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  Research Article| July 01 1996 Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action Michael Omi, Michael Omi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Dana Y. Takagi Dana Y. Takagi Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 55: 155–162. https://doi.org/10.2307/3043744 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…

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Frequent coauthors

• Michael Omi

  5 shared

• Yến Lê Espiritu

  3 shared

• Jean Wu

  2 shared

• Thomas F. Pettigrew

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  2 shared

• Yong Chen

  Gaochun People's Hospital

  1 shared

• Maximo P. Fabella

  Park Avenue Dermatology

  1 shared

• Vijay Prashad

  1 shared

• Helen Zia

  1 shared

Awards & honors

• Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights: Outstanding Book Awa…
• President, Association for Asian American Studies (2002–04)
• Humanities Research Institute Fellow, UC Irvine (1997–98)

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