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<DIV><FONT size=2>DEar List: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I concurr with Horace. My experience is that the
majority of people coming up in Korean studies are not white males of Anglo-Euro
ancestry or whatever. Nor is there an overwhelming dominance of such in
the field at large now a days. In a few years, then, the field will swing
the other way and its demographic spread will remain locked for the long period
of time in which it takes any field to turn over. Nor is it possible to
easily impute race as the factor in tenure successes or non-success given the
covert nature of many decisions and the fact that departments lapse into
speaking in tongues at tenure meetings. I know of two cases this
year in Asian Studies where the Anglo-Euro-white or whatever candidate was
turned back with questions of language competence. Yet, again, that is
only two and not a survey of a large field.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Mike Robinson</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=hhu@fulbright.or.kr href="mailto:hhu@fulbright.or.kr">Horace H.
Underwood</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:13
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [KS] can Asian Americans
have a voice in Asian Studies?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff 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 face=Arial color=#0000ff 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 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=734190307-30092003>Horace H. Underwood</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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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 face=Charcoal color=#000000>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></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>