Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Korean TV networks move to oust discrimination against gender, race The Korean Herald 2015-10-18 Claire Lee A much-criticized scene from MBC’s “Three Wheels,” where two female comedians appeared in blackface in 2012. Photo: MBC Screengrab In 2012, South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC sparked outrage among international viewers when it aired a segment of two Korean…
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Desiring biracial whites: cultural consumption of white mixed-race celebrities in South Korean popular media Media Culture & Society Volume 37, Number 6 (September 2015) pages 937-947 DOI: 10.1177/0163443715593050 Ji-Hyun Ahn, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington Contextualizing the rise in white mixed-race celebrities and foreign entertainers from the perspective of the globalization of Korean…
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Kang Soo-il’s drugs ban ruins inspirational tale for mixed-race Koreans The Guardian 2015-07-30 John Duerden, Asian football correspondent The striker with an American GI father was on the verge of a dream debut for South Korea after a lifetime struggle against discrimination when he tested positive for an anabolic steroid he blamed on moustache-growing cream…
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Call for papers: “Mixed Race” in Asia 2015-07-10 This edited volume seeks to focus attention on the neglected topic of “mixed race” in the Asian region. “Mixed race” identities have been the subject of growing scholarly interest over the past two decades. In multicultural societies, increasing numbers of people of mixed ancestry are identifying themselves…
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Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities The Huffington Post 2015-03-30 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor “I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people,” artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. “It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who…
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Homeland Tour for Biracial Adoptees KoreAm 2015-03-09 Katherine Kim Dawn Tomlinson photographs by Denis Jeong International adoption began in South Korea in 1953, as thousands of Korean children were left parentless and/or homeless by the Korean War, while many others were born to Korean women and fathered by American GIs or soldiers from one of…
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‘I’m proud of my African heritage’ The Korea Times 2014-12-14 Kim Se-jeong Top award winner Park Ji-han says taekwondo changed him When Park Ji-han was in his first year at elementary school, his classmates called him “African shala shala” because of his background and because he spoke Arabic. Now, a decade later, the handsome youth’s…
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Pictures made in the ’60s by a young photographer, Joo Myung Duck, depict the mixed-race children of foreign servicemen and Korean women
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Number of multiracial students on rapid rise The Korean Times 2014-09-21 Kim Se-jeong The number of elementary, middle and high school students from multiracial families soared to a record high of 67,806 as of April, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. That accounted for 1.07 percent of the 6.33 million total and is the first…