Category: Communications/Media Studies

  • Transforming Korea into a multicultural society: reception of multiculturalism discourse and its discursive disposition in Korea Asian Ethnicity Volume 13, Issue 1, 2012 pages 97-109 DOI: 10.1080/14631369.2012.625703 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since 2005, multicultural-based words such as multicultural society, multicultural family, and multicultural education have grown explosively in Korean society. Due to this…

  • Who stole all the black women from Britain? Black Girl Dancing at Lughnasa 2013-10-17 Emma Dabiri, Teaching Fellow Africa Department, School of African and Oriental Studies, London Visual Sociology Ph.D. Researcher, Goldsmiths University of London …Here in the UK, the  visibility of black women in representations of mainstream Black British culture is such that you…

  • The Impact of Internet Publishing and Online Communications on Mixed-Race Discourses The Asian American Literary Review Special Issue on Mixed Race, Volume 4, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) Mixed Race is an Inbox: pages 127-136 Steven F. Riley, Creator MixedRaceStudies.org: Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience Glenn C. Robinson, Creator MixedAmericanLife.us: Mixed Culture | Mixed…

  • Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media Cultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 3, 2014 pages 391-417 DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2013.840665 Ji-Hyun Ahn University of Texas, Austin Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration has become more and more…

  • Visualizing Race: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and the Struggle for Koreanness in Contemporary South Korean Television University of Texas at Austin August 2013 240 pages Ji-Hyun Ahn Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy “Visualizing…

  • Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial [Aspinall Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 5, 2014 pages 850-851 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.831934 Peter J. Aspinall, Emeritus Reader in Population Health University of Kent, UK Transcending blackness: from the new millennium mulatta to the exceptional multiracial, by Ralina L. Joseph. Durham and…

  • When Ethnic Ambiguity Becomes a Privilege SunDryed Affairs 2011-06-08 Wendell Hassan Marsh Taking a look at recent box office results, it is the ethnically ambiguous star and ambiguously ethnic films that appear to be making bank. Ambiguity reaches around and hugs the color line while supporting the weight of overlapping identities. It’s not a question…

  • Afternoon Talk: Dr. Zélie Asava (Free Event) Irish Film Institute 6 Eustace Street Temple Bar Dublin, Ireland 2013-10-11, 16:30 IST (Local Time) Zélie Asava, Lecturer and Programme Director of Video and Film Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland In our Afternoon Talk on October 11th (16.30), Dr. Zélie Asava, Programme Director of Video and Film at…

  • Throughout the twentieth century, the post-revolutionary Mexican State had used mestizaje as a symbol of national unity and social integration. By the end of the millennium, however, Mexico had gone from a PRI-dominated, economically protectionist nation to a more democratic, economically globalizing one.

  • Creative Media lecturer publishes new book Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2013-09-02 Sarah Mc Cann Zélie Asava, a lecturer on the BA & BA (Hons) in Video & Film Production has recently had her book—The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television—published by the Peter Lang…