Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media

by Ji-Hyun Ahn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319657739
• ISBN13: 9783319657738
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"