{"id":8116,"date":"2010-07-28T03:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T03:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8116"},"modified":"2016-07-27T20:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T20:36:45","slug":"more-than-a-metaphor-blood-as-boundary-for-korean-biracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8116","title":{"rendered":"More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p368501_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NCA 95th Annual Convention<br \/>\nChicago Hilton &amp; Towers<br \/>\nChicago, Illinois<br \/>\n2009-11-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:mwashin4@illinois.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Myra Washington<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCollege of Media, Institute of Communications Research<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hines_Ward\" target=\"_blank\">Hines Ward<\/a> was named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MVP\" target=\"_blank\">MVP<\/a> of Super Bowl XL, his Black and Korean biracial status became the touchstone for conversations about mixed-race people in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korea\" target=\"_blank\">Korea<\/a>. His &#8220;homecoming&#8221; trip generated a frenzied discourse around the limits of Korean identity and the location of bi\/multiracial individuals within it. Ward&#8217;s racial representation allows for the analysis of nationhood, citizenship, difference and race as imagined through blood metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allacademic.com\/meta\/p368501_index.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a Metaphor: Blood as Boundary for Korean Biracial Identity NCA 95th Annual Convention Chicago Hilton &amp; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,125,8,14],"tags":[2906,228,3427,229],"class_list":["post-8116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-papers","tag-hines-ward","tag-korea","tag-myra-washington","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116","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=8116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48443,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8116\/revisions\/48443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}