Upcoming Events
GLOBAL
HEARTBEAT
Multi Cultural
Drumming Festival for Racial Harmony
Commemoration of Sa-I-Gu(4.29), LA uprising
in 1992
April 25, 1998
Saturday, 1:00 P.M.
Bowne Play Ground in Flushing, New York
Intersection of Union Street and Barclay Avenue
Power to The Beat 1998, Poongmul Performance
Sa-I-Gu, 4.29(LA Uprising) Workshop
The Center for Korean American Culture is looking for people who are interested in film, particularly Korean American films, to join their newly forming film/media studies group. Members of this group will also participate in preparing for CKAC's 1998 Korean American Film Festival. With the formation of this group, CKAC is hoping to find active members who are eager to help flourish an alternativemedia culture for Korean Americans. The Third Annual Korean American Film Festival will be held first week of Oct. 1998.
Power to The Beat 1998, Poongmul Performance
Shinmyung Pae will be presenting "Power to the Beat 1998," it's annual fundraising performance for the second year. People who plan to attend the event can expect a full program of dynamic, soul stirring traditional Korean music, song and dance. There will be two special guest performers : Margaret Yuen, traditional Chinese folk dance, and Kee Young Lee, who will sing Korean folk songs (Minyo)
Date : Jan. 16 and 17, 1998 at 7:30 pm
Ticket : $ 20
Place : Hudson Guild Theater, 441 W. 26th Street (between 9th Ave. &
10th Ave.)
* There will be a Poongmul workshop for beginners.
First meeting : Feb. 8th, Sun at 5:30 place: Margaret Yuen's Dance Studio,
50 E Broadway
CKAC is hosing a two month-long workshop to initiate the critical thinking
process among young Korean Americans on race, ethnicity and Sa-I-Gu ( the
day of the L.A. uprising in 1992) This workshop will consist of readings
and discussions on the history of the U.S., focusing on Koreans in the
boader context of immigrants and people of color. Another cultural training
workshop will immediately follow, preparation for the public outdoor event
which will be held on Saturday, April 25, 1998.
This workshop will be conducted in Korean, There is no fee required to
participate.
Prospectus for a Sa-I-Gu Workshop
1st Week (2/6/98) Questions about Identity - Mapping "who
I am," "how I become we?" and "who are the others?"
Reading Materials:
- Ice Cube "Black Korea" in Death Certificate -A Video Tape
for L.A. Uprising
- Questions about poverty and discrimination.
- Sean Suh, "Dragon", Elaine H. Kim & Eui-young Yu, East
to America(New York: The New Press, 1996) pp. 139-145
- Karen Umemoto, "Blacks and Koreans in Los Angeles: The Case of La
Tasha Harlings and Soon Ja Du" in James Jennings ed., Blacks, Latinos,
and Asians in Urban America (Praeger, 1994) pp. 95-107
- Pyong Gap Min, Ch.6 Hostility toward Korean Merchants in Black Neighborhoods
in Caught in the Middile (Univ. of California Press, 1996) pp. 73-95
2nd Week (2/13/98) Questions about Immigration, Citizenship, and
Ethinicity & American National Identity
Reading Materials:
- John M. Liu and Lucie Cheng, "Pacific Rim Development and the Duality
of Post-1965 Asia Immigration to the United States" in Paul Ong, Edna
Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng, The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and
Global Restructuring (Temple University Press, 1994) pp. 74-99
- Elaine Kim, "Home Is Where the Han Is" in Robert Cooding
- Williams, Reading Rodney King: Reading Urban Uprising (Routledge, 1993)
pp. 215-235
- Michael Walzer, "What Does It Mean to Be an American?" Social
Research Vol. 57 Fall, 1990 pp. 591-614
3rd Week (2/20/98) Race-processes of racial formation
Reading Materials:
- Michael Omi & Howard Winant, "The Los Angeles 'Race Riot' and
Contemporary U.S. Politics" in Robert Cooding-Williams ed.
- bell hooks, "Presentations of Whiteness in the Black's Imagination"
in Black Looks (South End Press, 1992) pp. 165-178
- New York Times?
- Advertisements of Benetton in the New Yorker April 29 & May 6, 1996
-Alex Kotlowitz, "Colorblind" The New York Times Magazine, Jan.
11, 1998 pp. 22-23
- Michael Omi & Dana Y. Takagi, "Situating Asian Americans in
the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action, " Representations 55
Summer 1996 pp. 155-162
4th Week (2/27/98) Class - Questions of Class Formation
Reading Materials:
-Nancy Abelmann & John Lie, Blue Dreams (Harvard University Press,
1995) pp.??
-Malcolm Gladwell, "Black Like Them" The New Yorker pp. 74-81
-William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race (University
of Chicago Press 1978) pp.155-164
5th Week (3/6/98) Contingency Meeting
Reading Materials:
- Linkage between Ethnicity, Race and Class Reading Materials: David
O. Sears, "Urban Rioting in Los Angeles" In Mark Baldassare ed.,
The Los Angeles Riots (Westview, 1994)pp. 237-254
- Mike Davis, "Uprising and Repression in LA" in Robert Cooding-Williams
ed., pp. 142-154
- George J. Sanchez, "Race, Immigration, and the Rise for Nativism
in Late Twentieth Century America" a Manuscript 1995
6th Week (3/13/98) Positionality and Politics
Reading Materials:
-Yen Le Expiritu, Ch.6 Beyond Dualisms: Constructing an Imagined Community
in Asian American Women and Men (Sage, 1997) pp. 108-119
- Jennifer L. Hochschild, "Race, Class, Power, and the American Welfare
State", in Amy Gutmann ed., Democracy and the Welfare State (Princeton
University Press, 1988) pp. 157-184
- Stanford F. Schram, Words of Welfare (University of Minnesota Press,
1995) pp. 38-58
7th Week (3/20/98) Politics of Dislocation
Reading Materials:
-An Experience of Japanese Korean: showing a documentary video of Japanese
Korean in Japan. Will tentatively be a discussion with the producer -Norma
Field, "Beyond Boredom and Jealousy" Position
8th Week (3/27/98) T.B.A.