The past of others

Korean memorials in New York's suburbia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147443
AutoresNoriko Matsumoto (0000-0002-0071-173X, University of Vermont, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen40
Número15
Páginas2691-2709
Fecha de publicación2017-12-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1266006
OpenAlexW2561698272
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas25

Since the first decade of this century, public monuments to the memory of "comfort women" - women and girls forced into sexual service from the 1930s through 1945, by the Japanese Imperial Army - have been established in the United States by the Korean diaspora. This paper analyses recent memorials in the suburbs of New York that have experienced rapid immigration from Korea since the 1990s. The memorials met local resistance due to perceptions of unrelatedness to the American land. Such immigrant initiatives, however, have been supported by municipal governance. The project of inscribing a passage from East Asian history in the American context may be considered symptomatic of wider cognitive and social shifts in immigrant adaptation. Assimilation through the inclusion of immigrant heritage, along with an increasing sense of entitlement in being both "ethnic" and "American", have been integral to this contest regarding collective memory

Archaeology · Collective memory · CONTEST · Context (archaeology · Diaspora · Entitlement (fair division · Ethnic group · Immigration · Oral history · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law