Best Kdramas of 2023

Slavery in Spain with Antonio Rueda

This past February, I sat down with Dr. Antonio Rueda, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. We talked about using linguistics to examine Spanish literature and its depiction of enslaved Africans in Europe as well as their mixed race descendants. He wrote a paper I found fascinating called "From Bozal to Mulata: a Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Black African Female Slave in Early Modern Spanish Theater." [https://www.academia.edu/80861671/From_Bozal_to_Mulata]

Best Kdramas of 2023

My Kdrama Besties Kat and Jennay join me to chat about the best Kdramas of 2023. We discuss our top 3 but cannot understand why we keep forgetting about Divorce Attorney Shin. On the DMV Kdrama Meetup: Join me at Korean Drama Game Night https://meetu.ps/e/MHdV6/YCnrM/i See more of Kat Turner’s work on Korean adoptees on her website: Katturner.com

What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture: Part II

An oldie but goodie from the vault! Here is Part II of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Jung-Kim who teaches classes about East Asian cultures and Korean culture at UCLA. We discuss the use of Blacks in Kdramas for commercialization purposes, women marriage migrants, Filipino undocumented migration, sex and foreign women, and Korea's use of soft power around the globe in the Covid-19 crisis. What a treat! Follow me at @chinyereosuji on Twitter and @drchislab on Instagram. If you'd like to support the work I do, buy me a coffee! You can do that here: https://ko-fi.com/doctorchi

What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture (Part I)

Another oldie but goodie! In this episode, I talk with Jennifer Jung-Kim, a professor at UCLA about what Kdramas can and cannot teach us about Korean culture, history, scandals and global politics.  For the full video, complete with audience questions, click here: https://youtu.be/Eu2zAYLazp4 I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers-Camden. I do research on how Africans and Afro-descendants negotiate White supremacy in their interactions with racial and ethnic other around the world. I teach classes about Blacks negotiating racism, gender, and class inequality. If you'd like to support the work I do, buy me a coffee! You can do that here: https://ko-fi.com/doctorchi

November 2023: On Israel, the Politics of Language and Immigration

I had issues with my podcast account so, I recorded this back in November 2023 and never published it. A lot has changed since then but I still think it's important to share. Since then, 39,000 Palestineans have been killed, Hamas is still holding Israeli hostages, Israel has assassinated political leaders in Iran, and the Middle East/Levant is at war without being at war. I also discuss being the child of immigrants and guilt around "becoming American," not speaking your parents' language, and holding onto a culture that is no longer.