91自拍

Assistant Professor

Spanish & Portuguese

Henrique Yagui Takahashi is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese. His research focuses on race, migration, and urban space, connecting Asian and Latin American cultures. He is interested in examining cultural productions on racial imaginations, global capitalism and desire, and diasporic communities in the Transpacific world. His current book project compares the transition of Lima's Chinatown in Peru and São Paulo's "Japantown" in Brazil from Asian community spaces to multicultural tourist attractions and gentrified urban spaces between the 20th and 21st centuries. He has published journal articles, book chapters, and public essays focusing on the Asian diaspora in Latin America, Afro-Asian connections in the Americas, Brazilian hip hop, and urban spaces in Latin America. Before joining 91自拍 in Fall 2026, he was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College and taught at various educational institutions in both Brazil and the US.

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