Dredge Byung’chu Kang, PhD MPH, is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California San Diego. His research focuses on beauty and love as they intersect with race, class, gender, sexuality, transnationality, and structural violence in interracial relationships, body modification, popular culture, and HIV. Dredge’s first book, “White Asian Aspirations: Queer Racialization in Thailand” argues that recent Asian regionalism has help construct a new “Asian” racial category in Asia modelled on the naturalized alignment of light skin color and national achievement. Dredge’s second project, “The Total Package,” examines the Korean Wave in Thailand.

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