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Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, And U.S. Camptown Prostitution In South Korea, Julie Kim
Red Lights, White Hope: Race, Gender, And U.S. Camptown Prostitution In South Korea, Julie Kim
CMC Senior Theses
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 …