The Similarities of Racialization among “Gypsies,“ Jews, and Burakumin in the Middle Ages

A public lecture by Yasuko Takezawa, Professor of Cultural Anthropology/Sociology at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of Kyoto University, Japan and organised by CEU Department of History, CEU Romani Studies Program, CEU Nationalism Studies Program, and CEU Jewish Studies Program. The lecture was hosted at Central European University in Vienna (March 23, 2023).
In Professor Takezawa's previous studies, she has claimed that race is not a modern Western construction but has existed since the Middle Ages at least in some societies. In this talk, she demonstrated the cases of “Gypsies” in Romania, Jews in Spain, and Burakumin (then called Kawaramono) in Japan in the Middle Ages to point out the striking similarities among them in the way they were marginalized and racialized in their respective societies, including their relationship to their rulers. Race is not only a visibly distinguishable group, but can be a phenotypically invisible as well.
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