...Nora Hui-Jung Kim Abstract This article revisits South Korea's mostly forgotten involvement in the Vietnam War and examines lingering effects of the war on South Korea's subimperial nation‐building in general and on its contemporary multicultural policies in particular. The Vietnam War served...

...Ashley Carruthers 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Cute Logics of the Multicultural and the Consumption of the Vietnamese Exotic in Japan Ashley Carruthers The idea for this essay came to me while interviewing a Vietnamese jour- nalist and small...

... and difference-respecting multicultural and multiethnic Japanese empire, which were indeed the ideological foundations of the East Asian Community ( Tōa kyōdōtai ), as radical gestures of resistance to the Japanese empire, as frequently occurs. For regardless of Miki's intentions, the effect of his...

... their own worldview or epistemic base, these patterns are colonized into a normative form of belonging and citizenship. And most recently, in the United States, diasporan cultures are getting implicated in the rhetoric of multiculturalism...

... of postmodernism: globalization theory, multiculturalism, cultural studies, and postcolonialism. Globalization theory and multiculturalism, taken as a pair, reveal most obviously the “intellectual schizophrenia” that Deleuze and Guattari con...

...; a giant image factory; the last remaining superpower; a place of democratic politics and free markets; a culture that espouses multiculturalism and minority ethnic identities; the source of global speedup; and finally a nation where even...

... Since market segmentation in the United States has used ethnicity and multiculturalism to sell products that have participated in the construction of gendered subjects, the notion of multiculturalism has also become transnationalized...

... on the Japanese market.This Japanese version of subject- less, consumption-based multiculturalism arises as a means of forestalling the possibility that the national subject might go the way abstracted, deraci- nated, racially perverse multiculturalisms...

... and moral issue.” “Floating populations” are never limited by national borders, and Nora Hui-Jung Kim tracks how the post–Cold War celebration of “multiculturalism” in South Korea has erased the longer history of Vietnamese refugees in Korea. As part of the subimperial nation-building project, South...

.... The politics of race identity in contemporary U.S. society is what ultimately drives this area of parental concern. But what is particularly interesting is how the discourse of multiculturalism sets up the paradox of absorbing “difference...

... .” In Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore , edited by Goh Daniel P. S. Gabrielpillai Matilda Holden Philip Khoo Gaik Cheng , 107 – 23 . New York : Routledge . Khoo Olivia . 2006 . “ Slang Images: On the ‘Foreignness’ of Contemporary Singaporean Films .” Inter...

...” a digital Bruce Lee.2 My interest in kung fu is, however, only partly in the phenomenon itself. I am interested in how an investigation of kung fu can help us move from a limited multicultural framework into an antiracist, polycultural one.3 Many...

... the postcolonial ruling elite’s discomfort. Lim was unique among the four because he identified with the alien masses. His vision of local hybridity was one of inclusive British imperial multiculturalism, in which “the sons of the Empire” would enjoy...

... conceals the anxieties, fears, and other negative affects that express the harsh underside of transnational capitalism.2 Nowhere is this commercialization of emotion more obvious than in the marketing of multiculturalism and racial difference...

... multiculturalism. Its main claim for critical attention comes from the way it envisions the combination of dialectical thinking, new technologies, and media activism as a primer for the radical communications community. Fresh Kill’s...

... is produced as cultural tradition.”7 At Miss India USA I examine the beauty pageant as a formative site for ide- ologies of nationalism that resonate against both the secular nationalist proj- ect of the postcolonial Indian state and the multicultural...

... and discipline diverse populations, often invoking “multiculturalism” and official religious tolerance to depoliticize Hevia World Heritage, National Culture, and the Restoration of Chengde 221 any claims for separation or autonomy. In all such efforts, the instituting...

... translations? Southeast Asian studies over- looks this kind of collaboration between the local and the diasporic, call- ing instead for collaboration between “American” and “Southeast Asian” scholars that recognizes the multiculturalism of Southeast...

... the People’s Republic of China, the discourse of multiculturalism reinstates its racialized cultural boundaries and reductive cult of personality. But the “Chinese child” sets off extra anxious turmoil, according to Anagnost, because of the baby’s status...

... racialized resentment. This resentment fuels forms of racism that claim “cultural incompatibility” between Asians and Westerners, leading to a questioning of multiculturalism as a basis for social cohesion. Indeed, some commentators have used the success of Chinese and other Asian migrants in Australia...