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Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

by Joo Ok Kim
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781439920589
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Temple University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press
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  • Pages: 171
  • Original Price: USD 27.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies

Warring Genealogies examines the elaboration of kinships between Chicano/a and Asian American cultural production, such as the 1954 proxy adoption of a Korean boy by Leavenworth prisoners. Joo Ok Kim considers white supremacist expressions of kinship-in prison magazines, memorials, U.S. military songbooks-as well as critiques of such expressions in Chicana/o and Korean diasporic works to conceptualize racialized formations of kinship emerging from the Korean War.

Warring Genealogies unpacks writings by Rolando Hinojosa (Korean Love Songs, The Useless Servants) and Luis Valdez (I Don't Have to Show You No Stinking Badges, Zoot Suit) to show the counter-representations of the Korean War and the problematic depiction of the United States as a benevolent savior. Kim also analyzes Susan Choi's The Foreign Student as a novel that proposes alternative temporalities to dominant Korean War narratives. In addition, she examines Chicano military police procedurals, white supremacist women's organizations, and the politics of funding Korean War archives.

Kim's comparative study Asian American and Latinx Studies makes insightful connections about race, politics, and citizenship to critique the Cold War conception of the "national family."

Joo Ok Kim is an Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

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