A Korean activist talks about one village’s struggle to stop the encroachment of U.S. military bases and save their land.
Author: Christine Hong
Christine Hong is associate professor of literature, director of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, and co-director of the new Center for Racial Justice at University of California Santa Cruz. She is the author of A Violent Peace: Race, Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific. Along with Deann Borshay Liem, she co-directed the Legacies of the Korean War oral history project. She serves on the board of directors of the Korea Policy Institute, an independent research and educational institute, and she is the co-editor of the journal of Critical Ethnic Studies.