『그랜 토리노』 속 몽(Hmong) 소년들의 인종화를 통해 나타난 백인 우월주의

• 영문명: Resurgence of White Supremacy through the Racialization of Hmong Boys in Gran Torino
• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: 이수영(Sooyoung Lee)
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제52집 1호, 89~114쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2020.05.30

영문 초록

Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film Gran Torino (2008) features a story of a recently widowed Korean War veteran Walt Kowaski who set out father and son relationship with his Hmong neighbor, Thao and who eventually sacrificed himself for Thao’s future. Despite complimentary comments on such transformation of an one-time racist white old man Walt, however, he reveals his superior attitudes as American Whites in the process of racializing his Hmong neighbors including Thao and Spider-led Hmong gangs and wields his violence in maintaining his neo-conservative beliefs and values in the end. In this sense, this paper examines how white supremacy ideology works not only in Walt’s manning up of Thao as a model minority who will maintain the white-centered conservative values, but also in deporting Hmong gangs who threaten the neo-liberal order of color-blind meritocracy. This kind of conservative narrative can be persuasive through the performance by all-time respective movie star like Clint Eastwood and contributes to the maintenance of white supremacy.

목차

I. 들어가며

II. 몽(Hmong), “흑인화” vs “백인화”

III. “명예 백인” 모범소수민족

Ⅳ. 나오며

인용문헌

키워드

『그랜 토리노』 몽 아메리칸 칼라 블라인드 인종담론 백인 우월주의 명예백인 Clint Eastwood Gran Torino Hmong American honorary white white supremacy