Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
I Heart Korea
Thursday October 20, 2016
ANSO 134
11:30 – 1:00 pm
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Dredge Byung’chu Kang
Abstract
Focusing on beauty work, Dredge Byung’chu Kang (Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California), shows how embodying Koreanness consolidates the achievement of white Asian status while continuing to perpetuate the marginalization of those with dark skin and low social status in Thailand.
