email: yokima@gmail.com
we’ll use this as an english language guestbook.
the image is from a summer job i once had. we had to cut little red films to paste them on plastic tags that would be fit at professors’ doors. after a month of work, i got to learn every single new professor’s name moving in that summer.
that’s what they say…
source: mediamob.co.kr/contents/camera/cameraView.asp?camerapkid=1094
arguing for the statement that Cultural Anthropology belongs to the humanities and not to the social sciences
This paper defends the position that Cultural Anthropology, as a field of study, belongs (and should belong) to the humanities division. In so doing, I argue along two main points: 1) that anthropological work, as well as any others, engages with the humanities at a more fundamental level than the social sciences, and 2) that the field of anthropology would benefit from positioning itself within the humanities division rather than in the social sciences.
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From: Yongho Kim
To: Kil-Ja Kim, Kenyon Farrow, Mellon Minority Fellows Undegraduate Fellowship at Macalester
Date: Mon Dec 6, 2004 9:15 am
Subject: RE: Fwd: Permission to translate White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left
Ms. Kim and Mr. Farrow,
thanks for letting me post your article “White Nationalism and the Multiracial Left” on the web. It’s up now at
http://mediamob.co.kr/aboutnews/aboutnewsview.asp?pkid=5723 (now deleted)
http://b.yokim.net/293/
and, I’m sure you got interesting reactions back in the summer, but wanted to share responses I’ve got on the posting over there with you. I’m adding our current email communication (only this last message I’m sending out to you) to the entry so that readers a the site have an idea of what I am doing with their comments.
Also, let me know if you start getting too much spam (so that I take down your email addresses from the site) South Korean sites are quite a hotspot for that.
I wanted to share your article in both directions at this south korean blog site, because my impression is that there is a large ideological gap between discussions surrounding race in south korea and the united states. Reactions, and the language they are carried on from the progressive camp in south korea about race is quite disturbing, especially now that “illegal immigrants” from Indonesia, Phillippines and the rest of Southeast Asia have started flocking to south korea (reaching 1% of the population was the last I heard), and these “illegal immigrants” are quite different from the old “illegal immigrants” which were made up of white american troops of the occupying army forces (which included blacks but were conceptualized as part of the white masse). It’s even more disturbing to learn that at south korea sources of how race is dealt with in the U.S. comes from labor unions and indy media centers, which we may agree don’t have the most subversive strategy in dealing with race.
As for the online reactions to your articles, they do mostly focus on the first half of your article, arguing that you 1) caricaturize Moore and 2) you can’t really merge different movements into one big chunk. I think they are missing your criticism of how in-between groups such as immigrants are trying to step on black peoples’ discrimination to merely reap the benefits of not being black, which was your central argument (right?). I failed to get the concept of “black death” across, I think, and none of the reactions seem to deal with the second half (maybe it didn’t make sense?). The language and terminology barrier (we don’t have two words for “African-American” and “black” in the korean language, for example) If you decide to get out a response, you could just email them to me and I will try posting them in the original english along with translations, time permitting. Please feel free to check out the web itself.
I’m also cc’ing this to the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellows mailing list at Macalester, at which we discussed your article in august.
This essay addresses the notion agency as a contended concept in the development of anthropological thought, from Durkheim and Kroeber to Rosaldo and D’Andrade.
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(“난 파맛 켈로그를 먹어보구 싶다구요!!“로 영감을 내려주신 조작된흰색님에게 감사)
제가 샤프톤맛 라이스에 대한 소식을 알게된 것은 후보 토론 시간에서 였습니다..
그러다보니 광고를 언뜻 본것도 같았는데 전혀 광고 내용은 기억되지 않았다지요..
오.. 호.. 호.. 샤프톤맛이라..
사실 제국주의 및 인종차별주의 라이스 나라에서 지내다보면 확 급진적인 유색인은 왜 대통령으로 뽑히지 않을까? 라는 궁금증에 휩쌓이곤 했다는.. (안그러신가요.. 말콤 X 같은 사람에게 통치받는 라이스 나라는 없을까라고 한번쯤은 생각해보셨을꺼라고..맘대로 짐작해 버린다는.. ㅡ.- 라이스 나라는 꼭 백인의 것이어야 하나요 -.ㅡ;;)
그래서 저두 샤프톤맛을 지지하기 위해.. 민주당 공식 지지 시민단체 “함께 일하는 미국” [America Coming Together – ACT] 에 몸소 방문했습니다..
두둥.. 그런데 이 공문이란..
새겨 들어라!!
우리는 케리맛만 지지하는 유권자의 의견만 존중하겠다..
우리의 진보 성향의 함량 미달은 생각치 않고 급진 유색인 단체들의 딴전에만 분개한다..
샤프톤맛을 계속 지지한 표는 색출하여 우리 입맛에 맞게 투표율을 조작하겠다..
다시한번 말하지만 케리맛만 지지해라.. 그게 우리가 노린 나와바리니까..
앞으로도 계속 민주당 찍구 변함없이 노동자 무시하는 기업 아래 신음해라..
대충 해석을 해보자면 이렇게 읽히는데 저 정말루 성격이 꼬인거 같다는.. T^T 보통 이럴때 “난 아파서 그래!!”라고 변명을 해대지만 꼬인거 맞아요.. (웅얼..웅얼.. orz___)
제가 화가나는건..
유권자에게 발끈해(참.. 여러군데 나오시는군요.. 바쁘시겠어요..)하는 저 정당의 철없음이고..
천우신조의 기회를 발로 뻐엉~~차버리는 함량미달의 정치력.. (도데체 온 세계 뉴스에 나올만큼 띄워줬으면 그걸 잘 이용해야지요.. 쩌~~어기 구석탱이에서 얼굴이 케리맛을 질려서 파르르르..떨고있는 누군가가 보여요..아.. 발끈해 언니처럼 “나랑..싸우자는거지..싸우자는거지..”그럼서 웅얼거리고 있을지도.. ㅡ.-)
샤프톤맛은 안돼!!라고 미리 포기해버리는 전무한 도전정신.. 모두 그렇게 생각했다면 미국전국노조엽합이나.. 원체 백인 일색이던 브라운대학에 소수 차별 보상[Affirmative Action] 제도가 등장하지도 못했을겁니다.. 능력부족입니다!!..사실 전국노조연합은 1920년대 노조 분위기가 안나고 브라운 대학은 백인 아성도 아녜요.. 미시간 식 소수차별보상 제도는 문제점이 있긴 있지만 서방 세력의 가장 원초적인 사회 구조라는 백인 우월주의의 ‘방향’을 재처리한 그 능력과 도전정신에는 무한한 찬사와 존경을 보냅니다.. orz___(이건 좌절이 아니라 절하는거에요..)
뭐 하나쯤 어찌어찌 존중해보려면 초지일관 한우물을 판다는.. 그 무식한 의지력 정도랄까..(어찌 생각해보면 너무 정직한 인종차별에.. 장난질에 망한 정치질.. 산신령님의 보살핌으로 금도끼를 하사하셨으나 “내도끼는 프라스틱 도끼야.. 그거 내놔!!” 하는 너무 착한 마음이 느껴진달까.. -,ㅡ;;)
저 공문은 아마 함께일하는미국-ACT 단체에 자원봉사 가서서 한 너댓번은 본거 같습니다.. (떠업..ㅡ.- 저두 파르르.. 해버려서 투표할라구 당원 가입까지 해버렸답니다.. 뭐.. 하는짓이 똑같아요.. 쩌~~어기 기획실에 앉아 계신분들이랑..) ‘특정 인종 지지 하는 꼴짓 없기’ 멘트에 관한 룰도 무시하고.. 샤프톤맛을 찍으면 가만두지 않겠다는 저주의 포스가 느껴진다는.. …………. 무서운 사람들..
기분이 너무 나쁜건 정말 전 샤프톤맛이 먹어보구 싶었다는.. T^T.. 가만있자.. 백악관말고 어디에 들어가면 일을 잘 할까?? 파월이 있었던 국무성에 슬쩍 들어가 버리면 시끌벅적 하고 재밌을꺼 같은데.. 그래.. 샤프톤맛 라이스 나라가 들어선 국제 정세는 어떻게 진행될까?! 등등.. 저의 상상의 나래를 무참히 꺽어버린 민주당이 미워요!!
저 공문만 보면 이번 선거에 관심있는 사람은 단지 유색인종뿐인 걸까요..
오..호.. 호.. 쫄딱 망했네.. -.ㅡ;; (용호는 참.. 사악도 하구나.. T^T)
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당신들이 샤프톤맛 지지자들을 모독한다면 나는 저 오천칠백만여명의 케리 지지자들을 파시스트로 몰아버리것소..!! >.< 
평소에 한번쯤 패러디질을 해보고 싶었어요.. -.ㅡ;; 어제 고생 고생 해서 올린 음악 포스트 “일은 누가 한다냐” 를 미몹 분들이 걍 무시해서 충격먹어서 맛이 좀 갔어요.. T^T 그런건 정말 인기가 없다는..T^T
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Sent to: Ricardo Levins Morales, Mellon group
Yup, that’s the shortcut to perdition. [blog entry translation]
by Jungtae Roh mediamob.co.kr/rasugjuriha
original entry in korean at mediamob.co.kr/rasugjuriha/Post/PostView.aspx?RowCount=&PKId=22621
As my friend FunnyHat appropriately pointed out , getting your calculators out and making all sorts of predictions out of the U.S. presidential elections is quite meaningless and may even be bad for your health. What we really need to talk about at this point is about [south korean] national politics, which will influence us and to which we can exert influence. I can’t hold myself from saying this: just look at them – that’s the shortcut to perdition. A “critical support” [A] or “lesser evil” strategy is nothing but a shortcut to eternal damnation.
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So if George wins Ohio and John wins WI (10), IA (7), NM (5) and NV (5), both candidates obtain 269 votes? Interesting..
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From:¨Eric Olson
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 8:03 PM
Subject: here’s my crib sheet!
please read this first (after you have voted)
foreward: The title of this work is ironically appropriate: LS wanted to make things as simple as possible under his phrame of reference yet to our perpetual misfortune, it ends up being exactly not that. Please, enjoy.
e
ps, someone write me back saying you got it
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October 29, 2004
Interview 3: October 22
Ethnographic Interviewing
Yongho Kim
Y: I was trying to get all the poeple you had mentioned into some sort of taxonomy.
D: one taxonomy?
Y: but maybe, maybe just get a little vendor..
D: I mean, you can make, can make a taxonomy of vendors. (uhu) I can partly do that. Okay.. [sigh] Ah.. okay… there’s this.. something you could do is [sigh] these are kinds of members. There’s also the question, these, these people hold positions. They are not officers. At least I don’t think they are called officers. I would tend to move this one.. let’s get rid of these guys.. you use a word like regular.. regular members down there. Uh, and then just move the whole thing up this line. So, these are kinds of members but they do have specific designations – ride captains, COYs,
Y: I was just thinking that.. these should be on the second level because there are district editors, and there’s district COYs, and there’s the national
D: okay we have to.. [laugh] if, if we start doing the district, then you’re gonna have a whole another list. So that’s why you need to define what you have. Kinds of… I would say kinds of chapter members, or something like that. In other words, you are.. you can make it so big that you can’t imagine it. You can have other kinds of COYs, yeah, there are chapter COYs, district COYs, region COYs and the national COY. It used what they be. There are also ambassadors.. [laugh] forgot ambassadors. (oh ok) but they don’t occur at this level. you have district embassadors.. you have also..
Y: that’s why I was thinkin of the levels would be more like.. attributes of these people
D: yeah. if you cut it off in chapter, what you are saying is “I am adding an attribute to cut it down to one area” ok, and that’s what you would be doing. (I see) The.. and that’s what you should do. Because otherwise it will just get too.. you won’t be doing one thing at a time. There are.. I just wrote them down. [on the taxonomy] there are senior directors, [silence] see, uh, C.D. or Chapter directors are really the term for that, chapter director, and chapter.. I’ll just write them down dhapter director, you won’t get an assistant to that, nor any of these yo know.. you don’t get any of those there but you get your chapter directors. I don’t think there are any ambassadors at this level. So that’s just to add one thing. Uh, you know there are other kinds of officers. So senior, senior we just go right in – I’ll put him in here.Y: Maybe we could put in.. like what they are doing at the chapter level and what offices there are.. D: Okay this is chapter level. (uhuh) [marks chapter] Okay,..district (you coudl just tell me I could record it) ok, the district would be you can have a district director, a DD, [laugh] that’s an alternate way of saying it. I put a District Director and put DD in parenthesis. Just an alternate way of referring to the same thing. Okay, there’s a district director, there can be a senior district director. There’s a district trainer, and there can be a senior district trainer. There is a.. district educator, and there can be a senior district educator. There is a district COY, and i’m not sure if I’m dealing with officers now.. there normally, this is called the “state staff” [giggle] that’s what it’s called (state staff). yeah. and uhh, you know talk.. I don’t know if I’d use the term officers there or not, that’s a good question. But the “state” staff” is a way you would list that. There is a.. God, can’t do it all. Umm… a district editor (uhuh,) there is… any other formal officers.. the trainer, educator, uh there can be a district embassador.. okay.
Y: Is the district director the only person who has some alternate name?
D: Usually because you start getting into assistant district director, did I give you that? (No) I’m not sure if we have an assistant district educator.. district educator.. we might. I bet it’s possible to have one, so I’m just gonna give you what’s possible. Alright. You have a senior district director, you don’t have a district director too. But those are two offices and one.
Y: so.. if you have two a district director you don’t have a senior district director (no) you have either one
D: But that’s the other attribute of these terms. That’s the other term. If you say “what could you have”, these are what you could have. (I see, I see) Okay.. so it might be that all of them.. embassadors.. but all of hte other ones possibly might have an embassador. Just trying to think of anything else.. what are the reasons.. well, that’s an attribute. One of the reasons you have is so that you can move up in the position, but.. ok. Umm.. there is something called “the journal staff” [laugh] but that’s not under the state staff. (uhuh) and on that the journal stuff is the editor, the assistant editor, the area editor, – there are several – so it should be “Area editors”. Umm.. the.. advertising coordinator (uhuh) the uh… membership coordinator, let’s see anybody else..[silence] that’s all.. oh the, did I give you an assistant editor and yes I did.. (assistant editor) yeah, I don’t have one. (oh you don’t have one?) no, no, I just don’t have an office for it. Kind of reminds of cultures, where there are officers but there aren’t necessarily people. [in it] There can be people, and some of them holds, if, if, you know, someone were to assasinate the president of the united states, the office is still there, but nobody is holding it for a minute, until the vicepresident was sworn in. So, these are offices, these are positions, and often it is hard for students to get the idea that individuals are that. Well, there is a senior district director, but there isn’t an “office” called that, too. And when there is no one filling it, it’s still an office and we still know that it exists. They just invented that one about five years ago. Cuz uhm.. people were staying on and they needed a way to to put a term to it, so if they did it over the 2year term they were seniors. (oh, ok) those are attributes. Those are attributes.
Y: Umm, so could you tell me about the chapter level? WHat officers would there be? (Oh I did) oh, that was about the district lelvel?
D: I just did the district level (uhuh) ok? umm I can’t do the district.. I am not sure about the region and the national. There are some offices I don’t know. (Oh, what you read here is the chapter) that’s the chapter. Oh, ok. Could you tell me about.. what these chapter officers
Yongho Kim
Assignment 2: Project Proposal
September 21, 2004
Ethnographic Interviewing
1. “Altazor Arts Collective”, and as a second possibility, “Roots Theatre”
2. Altazor is Latin American, English-speaking, radical theatre group based in a major latino neighborhood in the Twin Cities. I am thinking of Peter, a recent Macalester employee, who upon finishing contract at the Spanish Department has started working with this theatre group. He is an actor and assistant director, and has four years of involvement with the theatre (he was involved in the group before leaving Macalester, and is full-time as of two years now, I believe)
Roots is a chicano political theatre group based in another latino neighborhood in the Twin Cities. I do not have contacts there, but my current employer has contact with the director of the theatre, Leonardo.
3. Advantage: these groups are continuously in need to “get the word out” about themselves, so they would be happy to talk about themselves, even if it was anonymously. Another is that this is a specialized field of work, so that it will both have an explicit culture and a rich jargon.
4. I am not sure if anyone in the group is involved only putting a few hours a week in the project, or if they spend time only for upcoming projects, or what. If any of these is true, then the research may have considerable hardship actually getting the interviews done.
5. Research with Human Participants Statement
a. Risks: very unlikely, but the group may have undocumented immigrants performing (as part of their “political statement”). People involved may not have enough time, especially as they approach a new performance. People may try talking to me in Spanish (quite a few of them know that I work for Centro, a latino labor center).
b. I will try to interview someone investing considerable amount of time, such as directors. I will also ask frankly if there are undocumented workers performing, and explain them that my interview transcripts could become, in a worst case scenario, target of court subpoena; and that therefore it is in the best interest of both that I engage in research in environments where no illegal activity (regardless of whether or not it is criminal) may occur. I will also make sure that my informant is comfortable talking in English.
c. To secure anonymity, the interviews will be stored in tape cassettes which I will keep in a bag with a lock in my room. (I am not sure as to what to do with the keys of the lock, though) I will transcribe the interviews into files that will be saved in my computer with a running password-protected file server system to access them from around the campus. Whenever I draft a transcript, I will shred it using proper machines at the Anthro dept before disposing of it. I will be using pseudonyms throughout the transcription of the interviews. I will write down critical number data in codes, so I’ll worry less about things such as addresses and phone numbers leaking out.
d. I will call their office, and try to set up an appointment (I work fairly close to their office). Depending on the outcome I will meet them or set up a phone introduction to explain briefly the project to him or her and request to talk with someone who would be willing to put the time. When talking with the director or actor, I’ll introduce myself as a Macalester student taking an anthropology class in which we are to learn interviewing techniques while trying to learn the interviewed’s perspective as much as possible. I’ll also say that I have a curiosity as for how the task of distributing the work is organized. I’ll explain him that this will involve a series of 7 or 8 interviews over a period of 10 weeks lasting 45 to 60 minutes, resulting in a 30 page academic paper describing his work from a neutral position that will be read only by my professor and me, for which I will receive a grade. I’ll also say that I’ll be happy to give him copies of the final paper. I will have to use a recorder in order to take good note of what my informant may have to say, but that will preserving a strict anonimity with the use of pseudonyms, careful handling of the data, and avoidance of information that narrows the site or person down. I believe this should give my informant enough information to decide whether or not to partake in the project.
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