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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/the-economics-of-bloodline-lan
 guage-social-class-and-the-racialization-of-damunhwa-youth-in-south-korea/
SUMMARY:The Economics of Bloodline: Language\, Social Class\, and the Racia
 lization of Damunhwa Youth in South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Korea Institute\n\nSince the 2000s\, inte
 rnational marriage migration has unsettled Korea’s self-image as an ethn
 ically homogeneous nation and produced a legally distinct “damunhwa” (
 multicultural) population whose children remain suspended between inclusio
 n and exclusion (J. Shin\, 2025). Drawing on longitudinal ethnographic dat
 a with six damunhwa youth (2014-2025)\, this study examines how ideologies
  of racial and linguistic purity\, rooted in Korea’s colonial and Cold W
 ar history (G. Shin\, 2006)\, still govern the ways these children are hea
 rd and categorized. Using raciolinguistic ideology (Flores &amp\; Rosa\, 2
 015)\, which treats language and racialized embodiment as co-naturalized\,
  I show that listening subjects—peers\, teachers\, textbooks\, and state
  programs—perceive appearance and speech through one another. Neither 
 “accentless” Korean nor a Korean-passing appearance secures these yout
 hs’ authenticity once maternal heritage surfaces\, while their mothers
 ’ languages signal insufficient assimilation and claims to prestigious E
 nglish are dismissed when the speaking body is not White. This co-naturali
 zation runs through social class: a mother’s country of origin supplies 
 the idiom in which race is assigned\, such that damunhwa connotes poverty 
 while honhyeol evokes European descent. Participants respond by concealing
  heritage-language proficiency or performing unmarked Koreanness. Korea’
 s case reveals how racial/ethnic hierarchy can be enacted by a non-white\,
  ethnonationalist majority\, complicating theories of race and racism buil
 t around whiteness (Ang\, Ho\, &amp\; Yeoh\, 2022).
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
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