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Dear all:<BR><BR>I am currently completing an article on colonial racialization with a focus on how Japanese settlers and journalists appropriated the native term "yo^bo" to derogatorily refer to colonized Koreans, particularly lower class laborers. I am also analyzing Korean critiques to this racialized usage of "yo^bo," but am not completely satisfied with the explanations they (the Korean critics) give as to the social etymology of this term.<BR><BR>I would, therefore, be interested in any scholarship (or other information) that deals with how this term was used during the late Cho^son period and into the colonial period. It would also interest me to hear more about post-liberation/colonial uses of "yo^bo" and if they had anything to do with the sort of derogatory usages I have been investigating from the colonial period.<BR><BR>Thanks in advance for your guidance and help.<BR><BR>Todd A. Henry<BR><BR>Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (2008-9)<BR>Korea Institute, Harvard University<BR>------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Assistant Professor in Residence<BR>University of California-San Diego<BR>Department of History<BR><BR>Humanities and Social Sciences Building Room 3008<BR>9500 Gilman Drive<BR>La Jolla, CA 92093-0104<BR><BR>Phone: (858) 534-1996<BR>Email: <A href="mailto:tahenry@ucsd.edu" target=_blank>tahenry@ucsd.edu</A><BR>Webpage: <A href="https://mail.ucsd.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2b030e9cd5804b7496e5a95e1f07afb0&URL=http%3a%2f%2fhistoryweb.ucsd.edu%2f" target=_blank>http://historyweb.ucsd.edu/</A><br /><hr />Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. <a href='http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1' target='_new'>Try Bing now.</a></body>
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