Mixed Race Studies

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  • honhyeol…

    …The Korean word for a bi or multiracial person, despite the composition of their mixture, is honhyeol (in), which literally translates into impure blood. There has been a “pride” instilled in Koreans for their “ethnic homogeneity” which has resulted in “fear and distrust of outsiders” (The Economist, 2006). The connotation for Korea, which bases its…

  • More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity

    More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity NCA 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton & Towers Chicago, Illinois 2009-11-11 Myra Washington College of Media, Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois When Hines Ward was named MVP of Super Bowl XL, his Black and Korean biracial status became the touchstone for conversations…

  • Ward Helps Biracial Youths on Journey Toward Acceptance

    Ward Helps Biracial Youths on Journey Toward Acceptance The New York Times 2009-11-09 John Branch PITTSBURGH — Steelers receiver Hines Ward surrounded himself with old friends at the dinner table on a recent Saturday night. The bond was as obvious as the look on everyone’s faces — half Korean, half something else. The shared experience…

  • The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver

    The President, the Professor, and the Wide Receiver When the biracial U.S. President Barack Obama visits South Korea tomorrow, he will be visiting a country grappling with its prejudices about race. Foreign Policy 2009-11-17 James Card This week, U.S. President Barack Obama, the son of a black father and white mother, is making his landmark…

  • The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race

    The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race International Relations Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 86-102 DOI: 10.1177/0047117807073769 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University The concept of ‘mixed blood’ is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled ‘The Amerasian Act’ was created by…

  • The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys

    The Dance of Identities: Korean Adoptees and Their Racial Identity Journeys University of Hawai’i Press October 2010 224 pages 3 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3371-8 John D. Palmer, Associate Professor of Educational Studies Colgate University Korean adoptees have a difficult time relating to any of the racial identity models because they are people of color who…

  • Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family

    Mixed Race Peoples in the Korean National Imaginary and Family Korean Studies Volume 32 (2008) pages 56-85 DOI: 10.1353/ks.0.0010 E-ISSN: 1529-1529; Print ISSN: 0145-840X Mary Lee, Director Pacific Policy Research Center, Honolulu, Hawaii This article discusses the production of “mixed-race” subjectivity in South Korea.  It asks: how can we understand the lived experiences and histories of…

  • The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction

    The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction Oxford University Press October 2009 216 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780195377361; ISBN10: 0195377362 Caroline Rody, Associate Professor of English University of Virginia In the wake of all that is changing in local and global cultures–in patterns of migration, settlement, labor, and communications–a radical interaction has…