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<div><font face="Charcoal" color="#000000">Korean studies is still a
white reservation<br>
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The minuscule academic field of Korean studies encompassing less than
40 Western university departments outside North and South Korea and
made up of a mixture of classical Orientalism and Cold War area
studies is not only heavily male-dominated, but also a very white
scene even if most undergraduate students are second generation
immigrant or adopted Koreans. As tenures and professorships continue
to be passed on to white males of whom the absolute majority are
either married to a Korean woman or has adopted a Korean child to
secure a comfortable access to Korean language and culture, ethnic
Koreans are confined to the racialized roles of native informants and
speakers.</font></div>
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Tobias Hübinette a.k.a. Lee Sam-dol<br>
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Ph.D. candidate in Korean Studies<br>
Department of Oriental Languages<br>
Stockholm University<br>
SE-106 91 Stockholm<br>
Sweden<br>
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Tel: 46-8-16 15 88<br>
Fax: 46-8-15 54 64<br>
E-mail: tobias@orient.su.se<br>
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Presentations:<br>
Department of Oriental languages:
www.orient.su.se/koreanskapersonal.html<br>
Info Portal Asia:
www.sub.su.se:591/sidor/forskning/koreaforsk/tobias/</div>
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