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Second-Generation Korean Americans and Transnational Media:
Diasporic Identifications looks at the relationship between
second-generation Korean Americans and Korean popular culture.
Specifically looking at Korean films, celebrities, and popular
media, David C. Oh combines intrapersonal processes of
identification with social identities to understand how these
individuals use Korean popular culture to define authenticity and
construct group difference and hierarchy. Oh highlights new
findings on the ways these Korean Americans construct themselves
within their youth communities. This work is a comprehensive
examination of second-generation Korean American ethnic identity,
reception of transnational media, and social uses of transnational
media.
Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding
Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists
and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White
actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost
in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the
concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White
identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters.
To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book
analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent
production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the
book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project
of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to
contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by
theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in
media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of
Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories.
Whitewashing the Movies addresses the popular practice of excluding
Asian actors from playing Asian characters in film. Media activists
and critics have denounced contemporary decisions to cast White
actors to play Asians and Asian Americans in movies such as Ghost
in the Shell and Aloha. The purpose of this book is to apply the
concept of “whitewashing” in stories that privilege White
identities at the expense of Asian/American stories and characters.
To understand whitewashing across various contexts, the book
analyzes films produced in Hollywood, Asian American independent
production, and US-China co-productions. Through the analysis, the
book examines the ways in which whitewashing matters in the project
of Whiteness and White racial hegemony. The book contributes to
contemporary understanding of mediated representations of race by
theorizing whitewashing, contributing to studies of Whiteness in
media studies, and producing a counter-imagination of
Asian/American representation in Asian-centered stories.
Multiculturalism in Korea formed in the context of its neoliberal,
global aspirations, its postcolonial legacy with Japan, and its
subordinated neocolonial relationship with the United States. The
Korean ethnoscape and mediascape produce a complex understanding of
difference that cannot be easily reduced to racism or
ethnocentrism. Indeed the Korean word, injongchabyeol, often
translated as racism, refers to discrimination based on any kind of
"human category." Explaining Korea's relationship to difference and
its practices of othering, including in media culture, requires new
language and nuance in English-language scholarship. This
collection brings together leading and emerging scholars of
multiculturalism in Korean media culture to examine mediated
constructions of the "other," taking into account the nation's
postcolonial and neocolonial relationships and its mediated
construction of self. "Anthrocategorism ," a more nuanced
translation of injongchabyeol, is proffered as a new framework for
understanding difference in ways that are locally meaningful in a
society and media system in which racial or even ethnic differences
are not the most salient. The collection points to the construction
of racial others that elevates, tolerates, and incorporates
difference; the construction of valued and devalued ethnic others,
and the ambivalent construction of co-ethnic others as sympathetic
victims or marginalized threats.
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