Overview
- The first monograph to examine mixed-race politics in contemporary South Korean media
- 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
- Analyzes cases ranging from media representation of globally recognized mixed-race figures to figures on reality television
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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“I Am Proud to Be a Korean”: Amerasian Celebrity Culture
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Performing the Multicultural Reality: Mixed-Race Children in Reality TV
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About this book
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’s 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 South Korea.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Ji-Hyun Ahn is Assistant Professor of Communication in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at The University of Washington Tacoma, USA. Her works have appeared in highly acclaimed journals in the field such as Media, Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, and Asian Ethnicity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media
Authors: Ji-Hyun Ahn
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65774-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65773-8Published: 19 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88102-7Published: 04 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65774-5Published: 01 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media and Communication, Asian Culture, Asian Cinema and TV, Documentary