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Zusatztext Sung-Choon Park's Korean International Students and the Making of Racialized Transnational Elites presents a vivid and illuminating account of how young elites from South Korea are marginalized as foreign students in the United States through racist practices! and how they navigate profound status inconsistencies in their daily lives! online and off! in Korea and the United States. Park presents a striking account of his subjects' worlds as he illustrates a great deal about the race and racism! class formation! and media and globalization in South Korea! the United States! and far beyond. Informationen zum Autor Sung-Choon Park is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at New York City College of Technology. Klappentext An analysis of the ways in which the intersection of class, race, and ethnicity shape the practices of diaspora-building and knowledge transfer and cause heterogeneous consequences in society, this book examines emergent highly skilled Asian migrants as racialized transnational elites through interviews with Korean international students. Zusammenfassung An analysis of the ways in which the intersection of class, race, and ethnicity shape the practices of diaspora-building and knowledge transfer and cause heterogeneous consequences in society, this book examines emergent highly skilled Asian migrants as racialized transnational elites through interviews with Korean international students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter One: Global Academic Hierarchy and Transnational Social Reproduction Chapter Two: Imperialist Racial Formation and English Language Chapter Three: A Balancing Act of Ethnic Dis/Identification Intersecting Class and Race Chapter Four: Conflicts over Conversion of Cultural Capital and Transfer of Knowledge Chapter Five: International Students' Cross-Border Transmission and Translation about Race and Racism Chapter Six: New Diasporic Nationalism as the Politics of Racialized Transnational Elites Chapter Seven: Digitally-Mediated Transnational Lives and Tactical Uses of New Media...
