{"id":34334,"date":"2013-10-16T03:24:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T03:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34334"},"modified":"2015-09-29T14:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:07:01","slug":"rearticulating-black-mixed-race-in-the-era-of-globalization-hines-ward-and-the-struggle-for-koreanness-in-contemporary-south-korean-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34334","title":{"rendered":"Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09502386.2013.840665\" target=\"_blank\">Rearticulating Black Mixed-Race in the Era of Globalization: Hines Ward and the struggle for Koreanness in contemporary South Korean media<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rcus20\" target=\"_blank\">Cultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rcus20\/28\/3\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 28, Issue 3, 2014<\/a><br \/>\npages 391-417<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09502386.2013.840665\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/09502386.2013.840665<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jihyun.ahn@utexas.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Ji-Hyun Ahn<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Texas, Austin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since the mid-2000s, the term multiculturalism has entered the Korean lexicon as migration has become more and more prevalent due to globalization. The cornerstone of this multicultural explosion was a 2006 visit by American football star <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hines_Ward\" target=\"_blank\">Hines Ward<\/a>, born to an African-American father and a Korean mother. As a black mixed-race sports celebrity, he suddenly became an emblematic media figure in the Korean televisual landscape, signifying a broader racial reconfiguration in Korean society. This media event \u2013 what I shall call \u2018the Hines Ward moment\u2019 \u2013 created and opened the discursive space for racial politics and multicultural issues in Korean society. Hence, this article aims to look at what this discursive explosion of multiculturalism and mixed-race means in the context of globalization. Reading the Hines Ward moment as a symbolic media text, the paper examines how the media discourse on Hines Ward articulates the issues of national identity and racial politics in contemporary Korean society. For analysis, newspaper articles, television programmes and television commercials that deal with the Hines Ward case are examined. By analyzing the modes of articulation of the Hines Ward moment, this study deconstructs the image of a \u2018global, multicultural Korea\u2019 shaped by the Korean media and examines the struggle for Koreanness in the televisual area of contemporary Korean media.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction: imagining a multicultural, global Korea?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There has been a common belief that South Korea (hereafter, Korea) has always been a racially homogeneous country because of the strong myth of &#8216;one people one nation&#8217; (<em>hankyoreh hanminjok<\/em>) (Shin 2006, G.-S. Han 2007). However, this common myth no longer seems as effective as it was in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/09502386.2013.840665\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,8,394],"tags":[2964,2906,16156,228,229],"class_list":["post-34334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-cultural-studies","tag-hines-ward","tag-ji-hyun-ahn","tag-korea","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42980,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34334\/revisions\/42980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}