The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed and non-mixed Korean narratives of the cold war era and reflect a postwar Korean society that grappled with concepts of citizenship, belonging, and responsibility.

Laura Ha Reizman is a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include critical race and mixed-race studies, transpacific area studies, Asian and Asian American literatures, visual culture, and gender & sexuality studies.

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Program in International Studies, the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, and the Critical Responses to Anti-Asian Violence (CRAAV) Initiative.