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Doo Jae Park
Lecturer
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Kinesiology (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
About
Dr. Doo Jae Park is a lecturer in Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies (Department of American Culture) and Sport Management (School of Kinesiology) at the University of Michigan. Rooted in cultural studies and ethnic studies and their political commitment to social change, Dr. Park's research interests include Asian racialization, immigration, and identity politics in contemporary sport and physical culture. He teaches the US empire, Asian Americans in popular culture, and sport and American culture.
Current Work
Dr. Park is working on his current book manuscript that concerns sport as public pedagogy that inculcates multicultural identities (i.e., post-raciality along with colorblindness) while facilitating the racial formation of Asian diaspora. He contends that sport is a cultural domain in which signifies multiculturalist white supremacist logic of sociality and raciality, racial capitalism, and sincere fictions of the US empire. Using youth ice hockey as an optic, he conducted multi-sited ethnography and cultural analysis in order to explore the racial formation of Korean immigrants and Korean Americans within the midwestern youth ice hockey communities.
Research Area Keyword(s)
race, immigration, Diaspora, Physical Cultural Studies, sports