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This paper examines the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, which has been overlooked in the study of race, empire, and Korean history. While the study of race claims to be global, it implicitly assumes that racism becomes possible through physical contact with 'different races'. Rather than examining the emergent racial politics after the recent global migration, I suggest that racism could emerge regardless of collective racial migration and contact. Further, recent colonial studies have overlooked the colonized, the Japanese Empire and its colonized. Accordingly, I question the absence of race in Korean historiography and the assumption of Korean racial naïveté based on the supposed racial homogeneity. Further, I demonstrate how the notions of race and blackness are fundamentally embedded in Koreans' understanding of the Age of Empire. Thus, this paper calls for a new 'global' approach to the study of race and empire that questions these overlooked assumptions.

This paper argues that race must be a central consideration in understanding migration in Korea, where international migrants are rapidly reshaping the national landscape. While migration scholarship on Korea has analyzed various policy trajectories, it has predominantly focused on three aspects—liberal democracy, ethnicity, and gender—largely overlooking the significance of race. First, it assumes that liberal democracy will eventually supersede xenophobia without critically examining its assumptions that are both racialized and teleological in nature. Second, by prioritizing ethnicity, it interprets discrimination against migrants through the notion of uni-ethnicity and a fear of foreignness without delving into Korea's deeply rooted fixation on race. Third, it overemphasizes gendered migration, regarding Korea's demographic crisis as a primary reason for accepting migrant women as biological reproducers. This paper contends that all three aspects are intricately connected to race, including Korea's aspiration for whiteness and abjection of blackness, which significantly shape migration dynamics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Antiblackness of the Social and the Human -- PART I OPENINGS -- Chapter one. The Illumination of Blackness -- Chapter two. Afropessimism and the Ruse of Analogy: Violence, Freedom Struggles, and the Death of Black Desire -- Chapter three. Afro-feminism before Afropessimism: Meditations on Gender and Ontology -- Chapter four. Toward a General Theory of Antiblackness -- PART II GROUNDINGS -- Chapter Five. Limited Growth: U.S. Settler Slavery, Colonial India, and Global Rice Markets in the Mid-Nineteenth Century -- Chapter six. Flesh Work and the Reproduction of Black Culpability -- Chapter seven. "Not to Be Slaves of Others": Antiblackness in Precolonial Korea -- PART III CAPTIVITIES -- Chapter eight. "Mass Incarceration" as Misnomer: Chattel/ Domestic War and the Problem of Narrativity -- Chapter nine. Gendered Antiblackness and Police Violence in the Formations of British Political Liberalism -- Chapter ten. Schools as Sites of Antiblack Violence: Black Girls and Policing in the Afterlife of Slavery -- Chapter eleven. Presidential Powers in the Captive Maternal Lives of Sally, Michelle, and Deborah -- PART IV UNSETTLINGS -- Chapter twelve. On the Illegibility of French Antiblackness: Notes from an African American Critic -- Chapter thirteen. Latino Antiblack Bias and the Census Categorization of Latinos: Race, Ethnicity, or Other -- Chapter fourteen. Born Palestinian, Born Black: Antiblackness and the Womb of Zionist Settler Colonialism -- Chapter fifteen. Not Yet: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Anticolonial Liberation -- References -- Contributors -- Index