Mixed-Race Politics and Neoliberal Multiculturalism in South Korean Media

• Main Author: Ahn, Ji-Hyun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: East Asian Popular Culture
• Subjects: Communication.; Ethnology-Asia.; Motion pictures-Asia.; Documentary films.; Media and Communication.; Asian Culture.; Asian Cinema and TV.; Documentary.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The New Face of Korea
• Chapter 3. From National Threat to National Hero
• Chapter 4. Consuming Cosmopolitan White(ness)
• Chapter 5. Televising the Making of Neoliberal Multicultural Family
• Chapter 6. This is (Not) Our Multicultural Future.