Who is ji yeon yuh

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WMC SheSource is an online database of media-experienced women experts who we connect to journalists, bookers and producers. Yuh specializes in Asian diasporas and has conducted research on ethnic Korean communities in China, Japan, and the United States. Sign Up About Press Donate. Menu Search Search. Instead, it comes from a place of love. It takes power and courage for someone to tell the truth when often pushed to the margins by a society that celebrates Whiteness and patriarchy.

Yet as an Asian American female, Professor Yuh has the courage to speak the truth loud and clear. Even when the other side gaslights and denies, Professor Yuh will tell the same truth again and again, relentlessly and fearlessly.

This is what made me want to learn Korean. I draw a big circle, a long vertical line, and two shorter horizontal ones attached to it. I write without hesitation: Ji-Yeon Yuh. But this time it is in Korean. I celebrate. Yujia Huang is a Weinberg junior. She can be contacted at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected]. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Ji-Yeon Yuh is the founding faculty member of the Asian American Studies Program at Northwestern University, where she teaches Asian American history, Asian diasporas, race and gender, and oral history. Her book, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America , was the first substantive work to examine the consequences for migration and diaspora of U.

Her current projects include a digital oral history repository focused on Asian diasporas, an oral history project on the Midwest as an Asian American space, a book on Korean diaspora in China, Japan, and the United States, and a study of reunification and Korea peace activism in the Korean diaspora.