{"id":57884,"date":"2019-04-08T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57884"},"modified":"2019-04-08T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T18:13:31","slug":"mixed-race-politics-and-neoliberal-multiculturalism-in-south-korean-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57884","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319657738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/\">Palgrave Macmillan<\/a><br \/>\n2018<br \/>\n231 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65773-8<br \/>\nSoftcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88102-7<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65774-5<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/directory.tacoma.uw.edu\/employee\/jhahn01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ji-Hyun Ahn<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Communication<br \/>\n<em>University of Washington, Tacoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9783319657738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.springernature.com\/w306\/springer-static\/cover-hires\/book\/978-3-319-65774-5\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first monograph to examine mixed-race politics in contemporary South Korean media<\/li>\n<li>Utilizes a critical media\/cultural studies approach that engages with and connects materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network<\/li>\n<li>Analyzes cases ranging from media representation of globally recognized mixed-race figures to figures on reality television<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media. It explores the moments of ruptures and disjuncture that biracial bodies bring to the formation of neoliberal multiculturalism, a South Korean national racial project that re-aligns racial lines under the nation\u2019s neoliberal transformation. Specifically, Ji-Hyun Ahn examines four televised racial moments that demonstrate particular aspects of neoliberal multiculturalism by demanding distinct ways of re-imagining what it means to be Korean in the contemporary era of globalization. Taking a critical media\/cultural studies approach, Ahn engages with materials from archives, the popular press, policy documents, television commercials, and television programs as an inter-textual network that actively negotiates and formulates a new racialized national identity. In doing so, the book provides a rich analysis of the ongoing struggle over racial reconfiguration in South Korean popular media, advancing an emerging scholarly discussion on race as a leading factor of social change in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>The New Face of Korea<\/li>\n<li>From National Threat to National Hero<\/li>\n<li>Consuming Cosmopolitan White(ness)<\/li>\n<li>Televising the Making of the Neoliberal Multicultural Family<\/li>\n<li>This Is (not) Our Multicultural Future<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book studies how the increase of visual representation of mixed-race Koreans formulates a particular racial project in contemporary South Korean media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8413,8,17],"tags":[16156,1197,229],"class_list":["post-57884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-ji-hyun-ahn","tag-palgrave-macmillan","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57884","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=57884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57885,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57884\/revisions\/57885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}