Kyeyoung Park 박계영
Kyeyoung Park 박계영
Professor, Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean-American Studies
Office: 383 Haines Hall
Email: kpark@anthro.ucla.edu
Biography
Kyeyoung Park 박계영 is professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA.
I am a sociocultural anthropologist. The question of inequality, my life-long scholastic interest, is naturally tied to questions of social justice, social change, and social movement. Accordingly, I heavily focus on culture in motion and the migration of people. Particularly I concentrate on cases of displaced people and their relation to structures of political economy and critical race and comparative ethnic studies and now, in a broad sense, their relationship to transnationalism and globalization. I am also the author of a book, LA Rising: Korean Relations with Blacks and Latinos after Civil Unrest (2019), published by Lexington Books. LA Rising develops neo-Marxist scholarship with intersectional analysis by examining multi-racial/ethnic tensions in South Central LA. I define axes of inequality in the U.S. as they relate to race, citizenship, class, and culture. My main objective is to explore how these axes of inequality have made an indelible impact on racial minorities and their relationship with each other.
My first book, The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997), by Cornell University Press, is the winner of the Association for Asian American Studies’ Book Award. This book examined why Koreans gravitate to small businesses and demonstrated how the structural imperatives of this process lead to transformations of concepts around gender, kinship, family, politics, and religion, and, more broadly, the transformation of cultural beliefs and ideologies. Besides these two monographs, I have co-written and co-edited three more books: Korean Americans’ ethnic relationship in Los Angeles; Korean American Economy; 태평양을 넘어서: 글로벌시대 재미한인의 삶과 활동 (Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age). In addition, I edited/co-edited three special issues of peer-reviewed journals: Second Generation Asian Americans’ Ethnic Identity (Amerasia Journal 1999) and How Do Asian Americans Create Places? Los Angeles and Beyond (Amerasia Journal 2008); Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea (Urban anthropology 2014). My current research projects are about the Korean immigrant communities in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay and the second generation Korean American Transnationalism. I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University (1998-99) and a fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation (1997-98). I also served on the National Advisory Board of a multi-year national public education project sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and funded by NSF and the Ford Foundation on Race and Human Variation.
Research Interests
Urban anthropology; Inequality (e.g., race, class, and gender); identity; migration/diaspora; transnational and global processes; social change and social movement; critical and multicultural theory; Korean/Asian American Community; Korean/Asian Diaspora; Koreans/Asians in Latin America
Publications
Books and Special Issues of Journals
2020 Cross the Pacific: The Lives of Korean Americans and their Socio-Political Engagement in the Global Age (태평양을 넘어서: 글로벌시대 재미한인의 삶과 활동). (with Yoo, Chul-In, Kyung Koo Han, Eun-Ju Chung, Jae-Hyup Lee, Jung-Sun Park, Hyun Hee Kim, and Jeong Duk Yi). Hakgobang.
2019 LA RISING: KOREAN RELATIONS WITH BLACKS AND LATINOS AFTER LATINOS AFTER CIVIL UNREST. Lexington Books (imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Pub.)
2014 Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea. Special Issue of URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 43 (4) (Ed).
2009 KOREAN AMERICAN ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Co-edited with Eui-Young Yu, Hyojoung Kim, & Moonsong Oh). Los Angeles: Korean American Economic Development Center.
2008 How Do AsianAmericans Create Places? Los Angeles and Beyond. Special Issue of AMERASIA JOURNAL (Ed).
2008 KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES (with Young-Kyun Yang, Okpyo Moon, Jeongduk Yi, and Su-hong Chae); in Korean). The Academy of Korean Studies.
1999 Second Generation Asian Americans’ Ethnic Identity. Special Issue of AMERASIA JOURNAL. Co-edited with Pyong Gap Min.
1997 THE KOREAN AMERICAN DREAM: IMMIGRANTS AND SMALL BUSINESS IN NEW YORK CITY. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Articles and Chapters
2018 From Vendedor to Fashion Designer: Korean Immigrants in South American Textile Industries. ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA (FALL 2018): 27-29. https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/vendedor-fashion-designer De vendedores a diseñadores de moda; Inmigrantes coreanos en la industria de textiles sudamericanas. ReVista (FALL) ESPAÑOL https://revista.drclas.harvard.edu/book/de-vendedores-dise%C3%B1adores-de-moda-inmigrantes-coreanos-en-la-industria-de-textiles (TRANSLATION INTO SPANISH)
2016 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. In ANTHROPOLOGY OF LOS ANGELES: CITY, IMAGE, AND POLITICS. Jenny Banh and Melissa King, Editors. Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers).
2014 A Rhizomatic Diaspora: Transnational Passage and the Sense of Place among Koreans in Latin America. URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 43 (4): 481-517.
2014 Introduction: Emigration and Immigration: The Case of Korea. URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 43 (4): 311-327.
2014 Transnational Migrant Workers and the Politics of Culture: Conceptual Discussion. CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY AND MULTICULTURE 4 (2): 90-121.
2014 Professor Lee Kwang-Kyu. Special Issue Dedicated to the First Anniversary of Late Prof. Lee Kwang-kyu. STUDIES OF KOREANS ABROAD 34:19-26 (in English) & 27-33 (TRANSLATION INTO KOREAN).
2014 The “Foxes” Outfoxed: Contentions between Koreans and Jews in South American Textile Industries. DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 38 (1): 17-39.
2012 Analysis of Latino-Korean Relations in the Workplace: Latino Perspectives in the Aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Unrest. AMERASIA JOURNAL 38 (1): 143-169.
2010 Sources and Resources of Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship. CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY 36 (6) November: 891-896.
2009 Introduction (Co-written with Hyojoung Kim, Moonsong Oh, & Eui-Young Yu). In KOREAN AMERICAN ECONOMY AND COMMUNITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Co-edited with Eui-Young Yu, Hyojoung Kim, & Moonsong Oh, 1-28. Los Angeles: Korean American Economic Development Center.
2008 The Contested Nexus of Los Angeles Koreatown: Capital Restructuring, Gentrification, and Displacement (with Jessica Kim). AMERASIA JOURNAL 34 (3): 127-150.
2008 How Do AsianAmericans Create Places? Los Angeles and Beyond. Special Issue of AMERASIA JOURNAL (Ed).
2008 Foundations of Violence: Korean Vendors and Powerless Customers in South Central Los Angeles. In KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES (in Korean), 221-267. The Academy of Korean Studies.
2008 Introduction: Korean American Studies and the Los Angeles Korean American Community. In KOREAN AMERICANS ETHNIC RELATIONSHIP IN MULTIETHNIC LOS ANGELES (with Jeongduk Yi; in Korean), 11-43. The Academy of Korean Studies.
2005 Korean Americans. In MULTICULTURALISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 281-297. Lorman A. Ratner and John D. Buenker, editors. Greenwood Press.
2005 Koreans in the United States. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DIASPORA, 993-1003. Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, editors. New York: Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University.
2004 Challenging the Liquor Industry In Los Angeles. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY 24 (7/8): 103-136.
2004 Where Do We Go From Here? The Virginia Tech Shootings and the Korean American Community. JOURNAL OF KOREAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION 20: 89-120.
2002 10,000 Senora Lees: The Changing Gender Ideology in the Korean Diaspora as Reflected in the Clothing Industry. AMERASIA JOURNAL 28 (2): 161-180.
2000 Sudden and Subtle Challenge: Disparity in Conception of Marriage and Gender in the Korean American Community. In CULTURAL COMPASS: ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF ASIAN AMERICA, 159-74. Martin Manalansan, editor. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
2000 The Unspeakable Experiences of Korean Women Under Japanese Rule. WHITTIER LAW REVIEW 21(3): 567-619.
1999 “I’m Floating in the Air”: Creation of a Korean Transnational Space among Korean-Latino-American Re-Migrants.” POSITIONS: EAST ASIA CULTURES CRITIQUE 7(3): 667-695.
1999 “I Really Do Feel I’m 1.5!”: The Construction of Self and Community by Young Korean Americans.” AMERASIA JOURNAL 25(1): 139-64.
1998 Attitudes Toward Patient Autonomy Among Elderly Korean-Americans. (With G. Frank, L. Blackhall, S. Murphy, and V. Michel). MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY 12(4): 403-423.
1998 The Rise of Sisters in Korean America: The Shift to Women- Centered Kin Organization (in Korean). In KOREAN ANTHROPOLOGY: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS, 415-443. The Editorial Committee. Seoul, Korea: Gipmundang
1997 THE KOREAN AMERICAN DREAM: IMMIGRANTS AND SMALL BUSINESS IN NEW YORK CITY. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
1997 Multicultural Friendship Tour to Korea. ANTHROPOLOGY NEWSLETTER American Anthropological Association (October), 23.
1996 Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black/Korean Tension in America. AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST 98 (3): 3-11.
1996 The Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding L.A. without Liquor Stores. AMERASIA JOURNAL 21:1-27.
1995 The Re-Invention of Affirmative Action: Korean Immigrants’ Changing Conceptions of African and Latin Americans. URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY 24: 59-92.
1995 Black/Korean Tension: Triangulating Class at the Crossroads of Race and Ethnicity. In KOREA AND THE WORLD: STRATEGIES FOR GLOBALIZATION, 3-23. Eui Hang Shin & Yan Kim, editors. Columbia, SC: Center for Asian studies at the University of South Carolina.
1994 The Korean-Black Conflict and the State. In THE NEW ASIAN IMMIGRANTS IN LOS ANGELES AND GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING, 264-94. P. Ong, E. Bonacich, and L. Cheng, editors. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
1994 The End of an Ideology: Korean Americans Analyzing April 29th. PEACE RESEARCH 2: 65-100. Artesia, CA: The Pacific Institute for Peacemaking.
1990 Conception of Ethnicities by Koreans: The Workplace Encounters. KOREA OBSERVER XXI (1): 13-30.
1989 Born Again: What Does It Mean to Korean-Americans in New York City? JOURNAL OF RITUAL STUDIES 3 (2): 289-303.
1989 Impact of New Productive Activities on the Organization of Domestic Life: A Case Study of the Korean American Community. In FRONTIERS OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 140-50. Gail M. Nomura et al., editors. Pullman: Washington State University.
Awards & Grants
2016-19 The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Education and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the academy of Korean Studies, Research Grant: How Do Second Generation Korean Americans Traverse a Transnational World?
2016-17 UHI (Urban Humanities Institute), UCLA, Faculty Research Seminar (Invitee)
2012-14 Korea Foundation, Center for Korean Studies (CKS), UCLA; E-School (Korean Studies) Courses for Latin AmericaKorea foundation, Center for Korean Studies (CKS), UCLA
2013-14 Korea foundation, Center for Korean Studies (CKS), UCLA
2006-11 The Academy of Korean Studies, Deputy Program Chair, Korean Studies in Latin America, CKS
2009-10 The International Institute at UCLA, “Korean Routes of Migration in the Americas” America (PI)
2008-09 The Overseas Korea Foundation, Translation Grant for the Korean American Dream; Immigrants and Small Business in New York City; AAP (Academic Advancement Program) Faculty Recognition Award, UCLA
2005-06 The Academy of Korean Studies, Research Grant (Investigator): Korean American Encounters with Other Ethno-Racial Groups in the U.S.; The Korean American Economic Development Center, (Community) Research Grant
2001-02 Institute of American Cultures and ISOP Faculty Research Award, UCLA; “Manufacturing Textile, Producing Differentiation: A South American Case of Korean Immigrant Textile Industry.”
1998 Outstanding Book Award (Association for Asian American Studies) for book, Korean American Dream
1997-98 Visiting Scholar Award, Russell Sage Foundation
1996-97 Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, “The Making of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and Korean, African, and Latin Americans.”
1993-97 Academic Senate Grant, UCLA, “The Making of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture: 1992 Los Angeles Crisis and Korean, African, and Latin Americans.”
1993-96 Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California, “Immigration Experience and Quality of Life: A Cross-National Study of Japanese and Koreans (in Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Tokyo, and Seoul).” (Collaborator)
1994-95 Faculty Career Development Award, UCLA; Institute of American Cultures, UCLA, “The Korean American Dream: Discourses on Small Business Activities, Identities, and Cultures in Queens, New York.”
1993-96 National Institute of Health: Department of Health and Human Services; Public Health Service, “Ethnicity and Attitudes Toward Advance Care Directives.” (Investigator)
1992-93 Division of Graduate School, UCLA, “Ethnicity and Socio-Political Participation in Los Angeles.” (Co-Principal Investigator)
1992-93 Center for Pacific Rim Studies, University of California, “Emergence of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Asian Immigrants in Los Angeles County: Medical and Cultural Factors.” (Collaborator)
1990 Service Award, Korean American Association of Flushing1998 Outstanding Book Award in History and Social Science, Association for Asian American Studies
