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{{short description|American academic in Asian American Studies and community activist}}
'''Elaine H. Kim''' is an award winning writer, editor and professor in ] at the ].<ref></ref> Kim is widely published in her field. Some of her books include Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism (co-editor with Chungmoo Choi); Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women (co-editor with Lilia V. Villanueva and Asian Women United of California); and East to America: Korean-American Life Stories (co-editor with Eui-Young Yu). Kim has also produced several videos about Asian American women.<ref></ref>
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'''Elaine H. Kim''' is an American writer, editor and professor emerita in ] and ] at the ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu/people/elaine-h-kim/|title=Elaine Kim|website=ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu|access-date=2020-04-17}}</ref> Kim retired from teaching in 2015.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.crg.berkeley.edu/news/interview-with-professor-elaine-h-kim/|title=Interview with Professor Elaine H. Kim|website=UCB Center for Race & Gender|date=January 18, 2016|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-18}}</ref> Her academic interests and research areas included Asian American cultural studies, art, literature, Asian diaspora studies, and Asian American feminism.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/elaine-h-kim|title=Elaine H. Kim {{!}} Research UC Berkeley|website=vcresearch.berkeley.edu|access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Is it a clash over writing...|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-24-vw-1117-story.html|date=1990-06-24|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>
Kim is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Asian Women United(AWU) of California, and was a former president at AWU.<ref></ref> She also co-founded the Oakland Korean Community Center and the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.


==Academic background==
==Biography==
Kim received her ] in English and American Literature from the ], ] in English and Comparative Literature from ], and her ] in Social Foundations of Education from University of California, Berkeley. Kim received her ] in English and American Literature from the ], ] in English and Comparative Literature from ], and her ] in Social Foundations of Education from University of California, Berkeley.<ref>{{Cite book|editor1-last=Zhao|editor1-first=Xiaojian|editor2-last=Park|editor2-first=Edward J. W.|title=Asian Americans: an encyclopedia of social, cultural, economic, and political history|year=2014|publisher=Abc-Clio, LLC |isbn=978-1-78539-452-2|oclc=915350279}}</ref>


In 1995, Kim received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the ], and in 2004, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Elaine H. Kim Retirement Celebration|url=https://aaads.berkeley.edu/2015/09/important-faculty-announcement/|publisher=UCBerkeleyAAADS|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref>
Kim was a recipient of Rockefeller and ].


== Academic career ==
==Documentary production==
Elaine Kim was one of the founders of the Asian American Studies Program of Ethnic Studies in 1969 and became a ladder faculty member in 1974.<ref name=":0" /> In addition to teaching, Kim served UC Berkeley as a Faculty Assistant to the Chancellor for the Status of Women, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, and Assistant Dean in the ].<ref name=":0" />
* Slaying the Dragon: Asian Women in U.S. Television and Film 1988
* Labor Women, 2002
* Reloaded: Representing Asian Women Beyond Hollywood,<ref></ref> 2010


A pioneering scholar of Asian American Studies, Kim's research areas included Asian American literature, culture, and feminism,<ref name=":2" /> and she was often a source for commentary on contemporary issues related to the Asian American community, such as ],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Egan|first=Timothy|date=2007-01-07|title=Little Asia on the Hill|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/education/edlife/07asian.html|access-date=2020-05-08|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> anti-Asian violence,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Noble|first=Kenneth B.|date=1995-12-13|title=Attacks Against Asian-Americans On the Rise, Especially in California|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/13/us/attacks-against-asian-americans-on-the-rise-especially-in-california.html|access-date=2020-05-08|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and nativist and anti-immigrant rhetoric.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Behind Trump's 'go back' demand: A long history of rejecting 'different' Americans|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-trumps-go-back-demand-a-long-history-of-rejecting-different-americans/2019/07/15/aeb4539a-a712-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html|last=Fisher|first=Marc|date=|newspaper=Washington Post|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190716031711/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/behind-trumps-go-back-demand-a-long-history-of-rejecting-different-americans/2019/07/15/aeb4539a-a712-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html |archive-date=2019-07-16 |access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref> Kim also studied the impact of the ] on the Korean American community in light of the purported Korean cultural trait called '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A complex feeling tugs at Koreans|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-05-la-fg-south-korea-han-20110105-story.html|date=2011-01-05|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kim|first=Elaine H.|date=1993|title=Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals|journal=Social Justice|volume=20|issue=1/2 (51-52)|pages=1–21|jstor=29766728|issn=1043-1578}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
Kim has lectured and presented keynote addresses and papers in many US universities as well as at various conferences and universities in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, France, Germany, Italy, and Trinidad.
* ''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context'', Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982<ref></ref>
Selected academic publications include:
* ''East to America: Korean American Life Stories'' (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996
* ''Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism'', Routledge, 1997
* ''Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art'', University of California Press, 2003<ref></ref>
* ''Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing'', Temple University Press, 2003


*''Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context'', Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982<ref></ref>
==Selected Awards==
*''East to America: Korean American Life Stories'' (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996<ref>{{Cite web|title=First Pacific Rim Book Prize Awarded|url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/First-Pacific-Rim-Book-Prize-Awarded-2961229.php|date=1996-10-31|website=SFGate|access-date=2020-05-09}}</ref>
* Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies, 2011
*''Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism'', Routledge, 1997
* Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2004
*''Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art'', University of California Press, 2003<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ryssen|first=Stefaan van|date=2005-08-04|title=Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/185785|journal=Leonardo|language=en|volume=38|issue=4|pages=356|doi=10.1162/leon.2005.38.4.356a|s2cid=191590255|issn=1530-9282}}</ref>
* Hall of Outstanding Women at California, 1995
*''Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing'', Temple University Press, 2003

== Community activism ==
Kim's decades of community activism include founding and leading several Asian American community organizations in the ]. Kim helped start the Korean Community Center (now the Korean Community Center of the East Bay) in 1977.<ref name=":3" /> The Korean Community Center of the East Bay provides legal assistance for immigration issues and social services for the elderly.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Korean Community Center of the East Bay - National Immigration Legal Services Directory - Nonprofit Resource Center|url=https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/nonprofit/legaldirectory/organization.546459-Korean_Community_Center_of_the_East_Bay|website=www.immigrationadvocates.org|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Community Groups Serve as Pandemic Information Lifeline to Non-English Speakers|url=https://www.calhealthreport.org/2020/03/31/community-groups-serve-as-pandemic-information-lifeline-to-non-english-speakers/|date=2020-03-31|website=California Health Report|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-08}}</ref>

Kim co-founded Asian Women United of California in 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Asian Women United (AWU) of California|url=https://www.asianwomenunited.org/about/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref> Through her work with AWU, Kim wrote, produced, and directed documentaries about Asian American women such as ''Labor Women'' in 2002 and ''Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded'' in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Films – AWU|url=https://www.asianwomenunited.org/films/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1844772/|access-date=2020-04-23}}</ref> Kim was also a co-producer of the 1993 documentary, '']: From Korean Women's Perspectives'',<ref>{{Citation|title=Sa-I-Gu|url=http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/saigu/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-05}}</ref> which recounts the ] uprisings and their impact on the Korean American community.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yamato|first=Jen|date=2017-04-28|title='Look what happens when we don't talk to each other': Korean American filmmakers' L.A. riots stories|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-la-riots-korean-american-filmmakers-20170428-htmlstory.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429022046/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-la-riots-korean-american-filmmakers-20170428-htmlstory.html |archive-date=2017-04-29 |access-date=2020-07-05|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-04-29|title='Sa-I-Gu' Documentary Explores How Korean Women Remember the L.A. Riots|url=https://www.colorlines.com/articles/sa-i-gu-documentary-explores-how-korean-women-remember-la-riots|access-date=2020-07-05|website=www.colorlines.com|language=en}}</ref>

In 1985, Kim secured the initial funding for the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), an Oakland-based organization to serve immigrant women garment and hotel workers.

==Selected awards==
*] Lifetime Achievement Award (City and County of San Francisco), 2012<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heritage Awards – Asian Pacific American Heritage Month|url=https://apasf.org/heritage/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-date=2019-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420001429/http://apasf.org/heritage/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*Lifetime Achievement Award, ], 2011<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://aaastudies.org/awards-winners/|title=Award Winners {{!}} Association for Asian American Studies|website=aaastudies.org|access-date=2020-04-23|archive-date=2017-03-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314170826/http://aaastudies.org/awards-winners/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*] Book Award in Cultural Studies, 2005<ref name=":1" />
* Hall of Outstanding Women at California, 1995<ref name=":0" />
* Fulbright Fellowship, 1987-1988


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American academic in Asian American Studies and community activist
Elaine H. Kim
Born (1942-02-26) February 26, 1942 (age 82)
New York
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Professor Emerita of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley
RelativesBrother is anatomic pathologist and neuro pathologist Ronald C. Kim, Clinical Professor at the University of California Irvine
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, UC Berkeley
Academic work
Main interestsAsian American cultural studies, literature and film, Korean diaspora studies, and Asian and Asian American feminism

Elaine H. Kim is an American writer, editor and professor emerita in Asian American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Kim retired from teaching in 2015. Her academic interests and research areas included Asian American cultural studies, art, literature, Asian diaspora studies, and Asian American feminism.

Academic background

Kim received her B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and her Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from University of California, Berkeley.

In 1995, Kim received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and in 2004, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Notre Dame.

Academic career

Elaine Kim was one of the founders of the Asian American Studies Program of Ethnic Studies in 1969 and became a ladder faculty member in 1974. In addition to teaching, Kim served UC Berkeley as a Faculty Assistant to the Chancellor for the Status of Women, Associate Dean of the Graduate Division, and Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science.

A pioneering scholar of Asian American Studies, Kim's research areas included Asian American literature, culture, and feminism, and she was often a source for commentary on contemporary issues related to the Asian American community, such as affirmative action, anti-Asian violence, and nativist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. Kim also studied the impact of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and civil disturbances on the Korean American community in light of the purported Korean cultural trait called han. Kim has lectured and presented keynote addresses and papers in many US universities as well as at various conferences and universities in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, France, Germany, Italy, and Trinidad. Selected academic publications include:

  • Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982
  • East to America: Korean American Life Stories (co-edited with Eui-Young Yu), New York: The New Press, 1996
  • Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism, Routledge, 1997
  • Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Issues in Asian American Visual Art, University of California Press, 2003
  • Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writing, Temple University Press, 2003

Community activism

Kim's decades of community activism include founding and leading several Asian American community organizations in the Bay Area. Kim helped start the Korean Community Center (now the Korean Community Center of the East Bay) in 1977. The Korean Community Center of the East Bay provides legal assistance for immigration issues and social services for the elderly.

Kim co-founded Asian Women United of California in 1976. Through her work with AWU, Kim wrote, produced, and directed documentaries about Asian American women such as Labor Women in 2002 and Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded in 2011. Kim was also a co-producer of the 1993 documentary, Sa-I-Gu: From Korean Women's Perspectives, which recounts the 1992 Los Angeles uprisings and their impact on the Korean American community.

In 1985, Kim secured the initial funding for the Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA), an Oakland-based organization to serve immigrant women garment and hotel workers.

Selected awards

References

  1. "Elaine Kim". ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  2. ^ "Interview with Professor Elaine H. Kim". UCB Center for Race & Gender. January 18, 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  3. ^ "Elaine H. Kim | Research UC Berkeley". vcresearch.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  4. "Is it a clash over writing..." Los Angeles Times. 1990-06-24. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  5. Zhao, Xiaojian; Park, Edward J. W., eds. (2014). Asian Americans: an encyclopedia of social, cultural, economic, and political history. Abc-Clio, LLC. ISBN 978-1-78539-452-2. OCLC 915350279.
  6. ^ "Elaine H. Kim Retirement Celebration". UCBerkeleyAAADS. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  7. Egan, Timothy (2007-01-07). "Little Asia on the Hill". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  8. Noble, Kenneth B. (1995-12-13). "Attacks Against Asian-Americans On the Rise, Especially in California". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  9. Fisher, Marc. "Behind Trump's 'go back' demand: A long history of rejecting 'different' Americans". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  10. "A complex feeling tugs at Koreans". Los Angeles Times. 2011-01-05. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  11. Kim, Elaine H. (1993). "Home Is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals". Social Justice. 20 (1/2 (51-52)): 1–21. ISSN 1043-1578. JSTOR 29766728.
  12. Book review: Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
  13. "First Pacific Rim Book Prize Awarded". SFGate. 1996-10-31. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  14. Ryssen, Stefaan van (2005-08-04). "Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art (review)". Leonardo. 38 (4): 356. doi:10.1162/leon.2005.38.4.356a. ISSN 1530-9282. S2CID 191590255.
  15. "Korean Community Center of the East Bay - National Immigration Legal Services Directory - Nonprofit Resource Center". www.immigrationadvocates.org. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  16. "Community Groups Serve as Pandemic Information Lifeline to Non-English Speakers". California Health Report. 2020-03-31. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  17. "Asian Women United (AWU) of California". Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  18. "Films – AWU". Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  19. Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded, retrieved 2020-04-23
  20. Sa-I-Gu, retrieved 2020-07-05
  21. Yamato, Jen (2017-04-28). "'Look what happens when we don't talk to each other': Korean American filmmakers' L.A. riots stories". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2017-04-29. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  22. "'Sa-I-Gu' Documentary Explores How Korean Women Remember the L.A. Riots". www.colorlines.com. 2013-04-29. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  23. "Heritage Awards – Asian Pacific American Heritage Month". Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
  24. ^ "Award Winners | Association for Asian American Studies". aaastudies.org. Archived from the original on 2017-03-14. Retrieved 2020-04-23.

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