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  • Ghosts of Camptown

    Ghosts of Camptown MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 49-67 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu025 Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles This essay engages the deployment of form in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother (1996), focusing…

  • Skin color remains big barrier

    Skin color remains big barrier The Korea Times 2014-01-27 Park Si-soo Min Kyung-joon (alias) is a “good boy” in many aspects. The freshman at a middle school in Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has been acknowledged by his teachers for his outstanding academic achievement and affable personality. Min is also very actively engaged in sports, which explains…

  • Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families

    Gov’t to overhaul services for multicultural families Yonhap News Agency Seoul, South Korea 2014-01-15 Shim Sun-ah SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Yonhap) — The government plans to streamline its support system for multicultural families to help them integrate into society, officials said Wednesday. The move comes as some existing services, including Korean-language education, have been redundant or…

  • Transforming Korea into a multicultural society: reception of multiculturalism discourse and its discursive disposition in Korea

    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…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals”

    Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals” Seminar Series: Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-11-07, 10:30 PDT (Local Time) Nadia Y. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,…

  • Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media

    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

    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…

  • ‘Koreans are not racist’

    ‘Koreans are not racist’ The Korea Times 2013-08-02 Jonathan Breen Koreans can be close-minded to issues of race and culture, but they know it and they want to learn, says the head of a foundation that helps multiethnic children here. Yang Chan-wook, chairman of the Movement for the Advancement of the Cultural Diversity of Koreans…

  • An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave

    An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave The Chosunilbo Seoul, Korea 2013-07-09 Emanuel Pastreich, Associate Professor Humanitas College, Kyunghee University I received an unexpected email in February 2013, from a young woman who was studying public health at Harvard University. Mariesa Lee Ricks explained that her mother was Korean and that she had a…

  • Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards

    Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards The Korea Times 2012-12-12 Jun Ji-hye Habitus, a student volunteer group at Yongmoon High School in Seoul, has worked for vulnerable members of society such as the disabled, senior citizens and multiracial children. Among their good works, running the study room for elementary school students from multiracial families…