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Join me in my salon (pronounced sahhhlon) as I discuss politics, culture, and society. As a sociologist, I bring levity to understanding a world that can sometimes weigh us down. This podcast helps you stay tuned to current events and pop culture without letting it bring you down. Follow me on Bluesky at @drchikdrama and on Instagram @drchiphd. Editing and podcasting costs money. You can support me on my Patreon at patreon.com/user?u=41029367

  1. 08/03/2025

    Sociology of the P. Diddy Trial “Mulatas,” “Homophobia,” and Socialization of Potential Targets

    In this podcast episode, Dr. Chi discusses the trial of P. Diddy, billionaire music producer and businessman, who was charged with racketeering and sex trafficking. Rather than thinking of him specifically, she discusses issues surrounding the socialization of women into the “freak offs.” Listen to discussions of colorism, homophobia, and love-bombing. For more on ideas of mixed-race (mulata) women in the United States and Brazil check out Dr. Jasmine Mitchell’s Imagining the Mulatta: Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media, Dr. Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Feminist Thought: Controlling Images and Chinyere Osuji’s Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race Produced by: Genete Demessew and Dr. Chi Music Credit: Candy Stars by Space Doves

    27 min

  2. 06/21/2025

    Frogs before the Pot Boils

    Kat Turner is one of my Kdrama besties. We discussed her experiences being in South Korea during the impeachment procedures there as well as what we in the United States can learn from how South Koreans fight authoritarianism. We discussed the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 in which scores of Koreans were attached and killed by national police in their fight for democracy. We recorded this before the protests against ICE and the "No King" protests of June 2025.

    24 min
  3. Slavery in Spain with Antonio Rueda

    08/07/2024

    Slavery in Spain with Antonio Rueda

    This past February, I sat down with Dr. Antonio Rueda, Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. We talked about using linguistics to examine Spanish literature and its depiction of enslaved Africans in Europe as well as their mixed race descendants. He wrote a paper I found fascinating called "From Bozal to Mulata: a Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Black African Female Slave in Early Modern Spanish Theater."

    39 min
  4. Best Kdramas of 2023

    01/01/2024

    Best Kdramas of 2023

    My Kdrama Besties Kat and Jennay join me to chat about the best Kdramas of 2023. We discuss our top 3 but cannot understand why we keep forgetting about Divorce Attorney Shin. On the DMV Kdrama Meetup: Join me at Korean Drama Game Night https://meetu.ps/e/MHdV6/YCnrM/i See more of Kat Turner’s work on Korean adoptees on her website: Katturner.com

    32 min
  5. What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture: Part II

    11/24/2023

    What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture: Part II

    An oldie but goodie from the vault! Here is Part II of my interview with Dr. Jennifer Jung-Kim who teaches classes about East Asian cultures and Korean culture at UCLA. We discuss the use of Blacks in Kdramas for commercialization purposes, women marriage migrants, Filipino undocumented migration, sex and foreign women, and Korea's use of soft power around the globe in the Covid-19 crisis. What a treat! Follow me at @chinyereosuji on Twitter and @drchislab on Instagram. If you'd like to support the work I do, buy me a coffee! You can do that here: https://ko-fi.com/doctorchi

    20 min
  6. What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture (Part I)

    11/17/2023

    What Kdramas Tell Us about Korean Culture (Part I)

    Another oldie but goodie! In this episode, I talk with Jennifer Jung-Kim, a professor at UCLA about what Kdramas can and cannot teach us about Korean culture, history, scandals and global politics.  For the full video, complete with audience questions, click here: https://youtu.be/Eu2zAYLazp4 I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers-Camden. I do research on how Africans and Afro-descendants negotiate White supremacy in their interactions with racial and ethnic other around the world. I teach classes about Blacks negotiating racism, gender, and class inequality. If you'd like to support the work I do, buy me a coffee! You can do that here: https://ko-fi.com/doctorchi

    25 min
  7. November 2023: On Israel, the Politics of Language and Immigration

    11/10/2023

    November 2023: On Israel, the Politics of Language and Immigration

    I had issues with my podcast account so, I recorded this back in November 2023 and never published it. A lot has changed since then but I still think it's important to share. Since then, 39,000 Palestineans have been killed, Hamas is still holding Israeli hostages, Israel has assassinated political leaders in Iran, and the Middle East/Levant is at war without being at war. I also discuss being the child of immigrants and guilt around "becoming American," not speaking your parents' language, and holding onto a culture that is no longer.

    24 min

  8. 11/10/2023

    Anti-Blackness and Korean National Identity

    An oldie but goodie! What if someone told you that your national identity was rooted in anti-Blackness? In the United States, many Americans do not like this narrative, despite evidence to the contrary. In this episode, I interview sociologist Dr. Jae Kim, Visiting Professor at Davidson College about his research on Korean nationalism and its roots in anti-Blackness. My Kdrama Clubhouse friend, Kerris, helped me out with this interview. We had this chat in our Kdrama friends room on the app. We discuss the difference between anti-Blackness and anti-Black racism and how it dates further back in Korean history than many would think. Articles Jae's written:  “The Darker to the Lighter Races”: The Precolonial Construction of Racial Inferiors in Korea" https://doi.org/10.5406/historypresent.9.1.0055 "Yellow over Black: History of Race in Korea and the New Study of Race and Empire" https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920513507787 If you'd like to support the work I do, buy me a coffee! You can do that here: https://ko-fi.com/doctorchi

    35 min
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Join me in my salon (pronounced sahhhlon) as I discuss politics, culture, and society. As a sociologist, I bring levity to understanding a world that can sometimes weigh us down. This podcast helps you stay tuned to current events and pop culture without letting it bring you down. Follow me on Bluesky at @drchikdrama and on Instagram @drchiphd. Editing and podcasting costs money. You can support me on my Patreon at patreon.com/user?u=41029367

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