Race, Gender, and US Camptown Prostitution in South Korea
Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2017 Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, and U.S. Camptown Prostitution in South Korea Julie Kim Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Kim, Julie, "Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, and U.S. Camptown Prostitution in South Korea" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1480. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1480 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact scholarship@cuc.claremont.edu. Claremont McKenna College Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, and U.S. Camptown Prostitution in South Korea submitted to Professor Albert Park by Julie Kim for Senior Thesis Fall 2016 December 5, 2016 d i d ABSTRACT U.S. military camptown prostitution in South Korea was a system ridden with entangled structures of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. This thesis aims to elucidate the ways in which racial ideologies, in conjunction with gendered nationalist ideologies, materialized in the spaces of military base communities. I contend that camptowns were hybrid spaces where the meaning and representation of race were constantly in flux, where the very definitions of race and gender were contested, affirmed, and redefined through ongoing negotiations on the part of relevant actors. The reading of camptown prostitutes and American GIs as sexualized and racialized bodies will provide a nuanced understanding of the power dynamics unique to camptown communities. The first part of this study consists of a discussion of Korean ethnic nationalism and its complementary relation to U.S.
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