1 |
Course Overview (2/20) |
2 |
The Birth of Mixed-Race Koreans (2/27)
Kun Jong Lee, “The Black Amerasian Experience in Korea” |
3 |
The Current Status of Mixed-Race Koreans (3/6)
Benjamin Han, “Melodramatizing Racialized Korea: the Impasse of
Black Representation in Itaewon Class”
Screening: clips from Itaewon Class |
4 |
Korean Adoptees (3/13)
Yuri Doolan, “The Camptown Origins of International Adoption and the Hypersexualization of Korean Children” |
5 |
Korean Diaspora in the United States (3/20): On-site lecture
Kimberly McKee, “Korean American Women Negotiating
Confucianism, Christianity, and Immigration” |
6 |
Korean Diaspora in Japan (zainichi) (3/27)
Kazuko Suzuki, “A Comparative Analysis of the Korean
Diaspora in Japan and the United States” |
7 |
Holiday (4/3) |
8 |
Midterm (4/10) |
9 |
Marriage Migration in South Korea (4/17)
Euna Lee, Seung-kyung Kim & Jae Kyung Lee, “Precarious Motherhood: Lives of Southeast Asian Marriage Migrant Women in Korea” |
10 |
Migrant Workers in South Korea (4/24)
Hae Yeon Choo, “Decentering Citizenship Perils, Promises, Possibilities” |
11 |
Refugees in South Korea (5/1)
Kyung Hye Kim & Jinsil Choi, “Discourses on Islamic Refugees in the South Korean News: A Corpus-Based Approach” |
12 |
Defectors in South Korea (5/8)
Screening: Crash Landing on You, 1st episode |
13 |
Ethnic Korean-Chinese in South Korea (5/15)
Hee-seung Irene Lee, “In Search of Korean Dream: Zhang Lu’s
Cinema of Inaction” |
14 |
Reverse Migration (5/22)
Screening: YouTube clips from Solid, Lena Park, Jay Park, etc. |
15 |
Presentation Project Due (5/29) |
16 |
Final Exam (6/5) |