“The Darker to the Lighter Races”: The Precolonial Construction of Racial Inferiors in Korea

Jae Kyun Kim received his PhD in Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute. He is working on a book titled Yellow over Black: The Precolonial and Colonial History of Race in Korea, 1883-1945.

Moon-Kie Jung teaches sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Beneath the Surface of White Supremacy: Denaturalizing U.S. Racisms Past and Present (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Reworking Race: The Making of Hawaii’s Interracial Labor Movement (Columbia University Press, 2006).