{"id":42304,"date":"2015-08-18T20:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42304"},"modified":"2015-08-18T20:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T20:05:31","slug":"desiring-biracial-whites-cultural-consumption-of-white-mixed-race-celebrities-in-south-korean-popular-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42304","title":{"rendered":"Desiring biracial whites: cultural consumption of white mixed-race celebrities in South Korean popular media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0163443715593050\" target=\"_blank\">Desiring biracial whites: cultural consumption of white mixed-race celebrities in South Korean popular media<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mcs.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Media Culture &amp; Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mcs.sagepub.com\/content\/37\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 37, Number 6<\/a> (September 2015)<br \/>\npages 937-947<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0163443715593050\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0163443715593050<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/cacnews\/node\/69\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ji-Hyun Ahn<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Communication<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contextualizing the rise in white mixed-race celebrities and foreign entertainers from the perspective of the globalization of Korean popular culture, this article aims to look at how Korean media appropriates whiteness as a marker of global Koreanness. Specifically, the article utilizes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Daniel_Henney\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Henney<\/a>, a white mixed-race actor and celebrity who was born to a Korean adoptee mother and an Irish-American father, as an anchoring text. Analyzing how Henney\u2019s image as upper-class, intelligent, and cosmopolitan constructs what whiteness means to Koreans, the study asserts that Henney\u2019s (cosmopolitan) whiteness is not a mere marker of race, but a neoliberal articulation of a particular mode of Koreanness. This study not only participates in a dialog with the current scholarship of mixed-race studies in media\/communication but also links the recent racial politics in contemporary Korean media to the larger ideological implications of racial globalization.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase article <a href=\"http:\/\/mcs.sagepub.com\/content\/37\/6\/937.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desiring biracial whites: cultural consumption of white mixed-race celebrities in South Korean popular media Media Culture &amp; 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 [&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],"tags":[20748,16156,228,17585,229],"class_list":["post-42304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-daniel-henney","tag-ji-hyun-ahn","tag-korea","tag-media-culture-society","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304","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=42304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42305,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42304\/revisions\/42305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}