ABSTRACT

Considering the call for a global approach to analysing race, this study develops a theoretical framework of how racial ideology becomes structured at a global, transnational level. Drawing from approximately 500 hours of ethnographic participant observation at a predominantly white university located in the Southern United States, this study illustrates how Koreans and Korean Americans reproduce a transnational racial hierarchy at a predominantly white university. My findings show how Korean and Korean Americans normalize the imperial U.S.-Korea relations through a racially affective economy of language use in social interactions. The imperial standpoint observed in Koreans and Korean Americans calls into question the role that honorary whiteness plays in the United States’ triracial order. I further discuss the implication of Asian and Asian American's possessive investment in honorary whiteness, which is central to the maintenance of a transnational triracial order with Korea as an extension of the U.S. empire.

摘要

考虑到对分析种族的全球方法的呼吁，本研究开发了一个关于种族意识形态如何在全球、跨国层面构建的理论框架。本研究利用在美国南部一所白人占多数的大学进行的大约 500 小时的民族志参与者观察，说明韩国人和韩裔美国人如何在一所白人占多数的大学中复制跨国种族等级制度。我的研究结果表明，韩国人和韩裔美国人如何通过社会交往中语言使用的种族情感经济使美韩帝国关系正常化。在韩国人和韩裔美国人身上观察到的帝国主义立场令人质疑名誉白人在美国的三种族秩序中所扮演的角色。