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- Title
Black Girls and Korean Popular Culture: Embodying Identity as a Multiple Self through Portraiture Photography.
- Authors
Kwon, Hyunji
- Abstract
Between the discourse of racial prejudice and sexism embedded in Korean popular music (K-pop) and the racial and gendered discourse of Black girls' identity, I was interested in how Black girl fans of K-pop perceive and negotiate these two seemingly incompatible cultural discourses. Thus, I led a series of theme-based photography workshops during which the girl participants created portraiture photographs and took part in group discussions. In this paper, I examine their portraiture photographs using Alberto Melucci's concept of identity as a multiple self. My analysis reveals that the girls are not passive recipients of a foreign popular culture but active and strategic agents in constructing their identities, with artistic interventions increasing their response-ability and helping them embody their multiple selves.
- Subjects
BLACK children; POPULAR culture; RACISM; PHOTOGRAPHY workshops; POPULAR music; KOREAN pop music; PREJUDICES
- Publication
Visual Arts Research, 2023, Vol 49, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
0736-0770
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5406/21518009.49.2.05