{"id":64233,"date":"2023-03-23T03:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64233"},"modified":"2023-03-23T03:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T03:48:55","slug":"blackness-koreanness-and-han-unmasking-race-in-korean-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64233","title":{"rendered":"Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347231153169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Blackness, Koreanness, and Han: Unmasking Race in Korean Hip Hop<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/home\/JBS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Journal of Black Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/toc\/jbsa\/54\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 54, Issue 2, March 2023<\/a><br \/>\npages 136\u2013156<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347231153169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1177\/00219347231153169<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arts-sciences.buffalo.edu\/linguistics\/faculty\/hyein-kim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hyein Amber Kim<\/strong><\/a>, Teaching Assistant Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Linguistics<br \/>\n<em>State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previous studies have analyzed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_hip_hop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Korean hip hop<\/a> through the lens of authenticity, language, and cultural hybridity, but not through the lens of race. One of the main characteristics of hip hop culture is that it emerged in the form of resistance against dominant hegemony and as a form of resistance to systemic injustice; however, it is difficult to find K-hip hop artists that defy the racial supremacy of Koreanness and racism through their art. This article utilizes <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yoon_Mi-rae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoon Mi-rae<\/a>, who is half-Black and half-Korean, as a significant text to explore how race plays a role in Korean society and how Blackness, Koreanness, and han intersect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_hip_hop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">K-hip hop<\/a> scene. Utilizing the concept of community cultural wealth, interest convergence principle, and Koreanness, the study analyzes how Yoon Mi-rae\u2019s \u201cBlack Koreanness\u201d was consumed by Korean media and music industry, and how Yon Mi-rae, as an embodiment of Blackness and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Han_(cultural)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Han<\/a>, uses hip hop and her intersectionality as a tool of resistance to both the mainstream American and mainstream Korean racial ideology and discourse. With the growing influence and popularity of K-hip hop globally, the article problematizes the message K-hip hop is reflecting and sending the world about race.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/00219347231153169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article utilizes Yoon Mi-rae, who is half-Black and half-Korean, as a significant text to explore how race plays a role in Korean society and how Blackness, Koreanness, and han intersect in the K-hip hop scene. Utilizing the concept of community cultural wealth, interest convergence principle, and Koreanness, the study analyzes how Yoon Mi-rae\u2019s \u201cBlack Koreanness\u201d was consumed by Korean media and music industry, and how Yon Mi-rae, as an embodiment of Blackness and Han, uses hip hop and her intersectionality as a tool of resistance to both the mainstream American and mainstream Korean racial ideology and discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,16],"tags":[33789,25547,102,33788,228,33787,1392,33785,229,25548,33786],"class_list":["post-64233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-asia","tag-han","tag-hyein-amber-kim","tag-journal-of-black-studies","tag-k-hip-hop","tag-korea","tag-korean-hip-hop","tag-music","tag-natasha-shanta-reid","tag-south-korea","tag-yoon-mi-rae","tag-33786"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64233","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=64233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64234,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64233\/revisions\/64234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}