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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=734190307-30092003>Perhaps the statement below is true in Europe - I don't
know. For the past six years in Fulbright, however, the American graduate
students and tenured scholars of Korean studies who have received Fulbright
grants to do research in Korea have largely been Korean
American.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=734190307-30092003>Someone would have to do a survey of white male
American professors married to Korean women to find their motivations, but in my
own case I would not readily accept the idea that the motivation of my wife and
myself in adopting our Korean daughters was to secure access to Korean language
and culture.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=734190307-30092003>Horace
H. Underwood</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws
[mailto:Koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Tobias
Hübinette<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Korean Studies Discussion List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [KS] can Asian Americans
have a voice in Asian Studies?<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Charcoal>Korean studies is still a white
reservation<BR><BR>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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<DIV><BR><BR>Tobias Hübinette a.k.a. Lee Sam-dol<BR><BR>Ph.D. candidate in
Korean Studies<BR>Department of Oriental Languages<BR>Stockholm
University<BR>SE-106 91 Stockholm<BR>Sweden<BR><BR>Tel: 46-8-16 15 88<BR>Fax:
46-8-15 54 64<BR>E-mail:
tobias@orient.su.se<BR><BR>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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>