Conversions

MOVE ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 15-36
Author(s):  
Richard Kent Evans
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sacred Text ◽  
Shared Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War

This chapter introduces readers to the social world of MOVE. It features a biography of John Africa, also known as Vincent Leaphart. Leaphart was born in Philadelphia in 1936. He served a tour of duty during the Korean War. The chapter introduces readers to some of the early converts to MOVE, including Delbert Orr Africa, Louise James Africa, Donald Glassey, Gail Africa, Muriel Austin Africa, Janet Hollaway Africa, and others. By 1974, there were around two dozen MOVE people, most with the surname Africa. Many, though not all, were Black. Many were biological relatives. They spent their days working on the house, tending the animals, and cooking communal meals. What united these early MOVE people was a shared identity, a sense of family under the headship of John Africa, and a veneration of a sacred text.

Introduction: The Korean War in Britain

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Grace Huxford
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Social History ◽  
Korean War ◽  
British History ◽  
History Writing ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

This introduction first gives an overview of Korean War historiography alongside a summary of the war itself, before exploring the position of the Korean War and the Cold War in British history-writing. It highlights how selfhood and citizenship have emerged as growing categories of analysis in Cold War studies and argues why it is important to consider them in the context of post-1945 Britain. It closes by exploring the challenges and possibilities of writing the social history of warfare and bringing domestic and military ‘spheres’ together in a meaningful way.

Two sacred tales in the Seoul metropolis: The gospels of prosperity and development in modernizing South Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myung-Sahm Suh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
Population Concentration ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Process Of Urbanization ◽  
Religious Actors

This article examines the ways in which the emergence of the Seoul Capital Area offered both opportunities and challenges to religious actors in modernizing South Korea. South Korea rebuilt itself from the ruins of the Korean War through an accelerated process of urbanization and industrialization in accordance with a state-led modernization drive. This process, in turn, led to an unprecedented population concentration in Seoul and its surrounding area, where new political and economic centers emerged side-by-side with slums and shantytowns. Amid this turbulent social change, some of today’s most well-known Protestant leaders – especially Pentecostal Cho Yong-gi and Calvinist Kim Chin-hong – joined the caravan of rural-to-urban migration and commenced their ministries in Seoul, adapting their religious messages and practices to address the social aspirations of the growing urban population. This article demonstrates that despite their shared concern for the problem of urban poverty, Cho Yong-gi and Kim Chin-hong faced successes and failures in different ways as they adopted ministerial programs of the gospel of prosperity and the theology of development, respectively.

No woman wants any more war: Popular responses to the outbreak of war

2018 ◽  
pp. 30-51
Author(s):  
Grace Huxford
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Korean War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nuclear Warfare

This chapter uses Mass Observation (MO) survey material to assess initial responses to the outbreak of war in the summer of 1950. It first explores the utility of MO surveys and diaries to the social history of the war, before analysing responses in detail, alongside early television and newspaper reports. It concludes that the first few months of the Korean War were a worrying time for many Britons, as anxieties gathered around several areas: aerial attack, nuclear warfare and the mobilisation of male citizens.

Citizen soldiers: National servicemen in the Korean War

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-95
Author(s):  
Grace Huxford
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Korean War ◽  
British Society ◽  
National Service ◽  
The Social ◽  
Citizen Soldiers ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

This chapter examines how citizenship and selfhood were subtly recalibrated through conscription in Cold War Britain and uncovers details of the lives of young national servicemen in Korea. It begins with a discussion of military citizenship in the era of the Korean War, before turning to specific moments in national service life. Starting with recruitment (a recurring feature in most memoirs of national service), it explores the significance of masculinity, age, class and humour for the young men who were sent to Korea during their two years’ service. Together with the previous chapter, it sets out again the importance of experience to the social history of the Korean War in Britain. It considers how opinions on national service further informed the British views of the Korean War and how, like Korea, national service fitted uneasily within the narratives of post-war British society and culture. Like Korea, was national service obligatory, unglamorous and potentially of limited overall purpose?

Mother America

2018 ◽  
pp. 157-186
Author(s):  
Shawyn C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Korean Adoption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Adoptive Parenthood ◽  
International Social

After the Korean War, it became acceptable and expected that American families would adopt Korean children into their homes, symbolizing American prosperity and security. As significant a role as social work played in this process, there currently exists no research that examines the activities of the profession and the origins of Korean adoption. This chapter discusses the maternalist nature of adoption efforts during the 1950s by one international social welfare agency after the Korean War: the American Branch of International Social Service (ISS-USA). Predicated on maternalist ideologies that shaped the social work profession during the Progressive Era, in what the author calls Cold War maternalism, the gendered notions of motherhood were expanded to genderless notions of parenthood. Anticommunist sentiments thrust adoptive parenthood into the political spotlight on an international level, thus serving the best interests of adoptive parents and the nation long before serving those of the children.

Mother America

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-52
Author(s):  
Shawyn C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Korean Adoption ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Adoptive Parenthood ◽  
International Social

After the Korean War, it became acceptable and expected that American families would adopt Korean children into their homes, symbolizing American prosperity and security. As significant a role as social work played in this process, there currently exists no research that examines the activities of the profession and the origins of Korean adoption. This chapter discusses the maternalist nature of adoption efforts during the 1950s by one international social welfare agency after the Korean War: the American Branch of International Social Service (ISS-USA). Predicated on maternalist ideologies that shaped the social work profession during the Progressive Era, in what the author calls Cold War maternalism, the gendered notions of motherhood were expanded to genderless notions of parenthood. Anticommunist sentiments thrust adoptive parenthood into the political spotlight on an international level, thus serving the best interests of adoptive parents and the nation long before serving those of the children.

scholarly journals Towards Archival Justice: The Case of Nogŭn-ri Massacre During the Korean War

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-27
Author(s):  
Young-Hwa Hong
Keyword(s):  
Korean War ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Us Military ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Oral Testimony

This paper discusses the social production of archives with a focus on the archive of the Nogŭn-ri Massacre, a case of mass violence against South Korean civilians by US forces during the Korean War. Recent scholarship has criticized views of archives as stable repositories for documents, and instead has shown the process through which archives are constructed through divergent social forces. Moreover, scholars have encouraged archivists to actively function as conduits for the voices of marginalized counterpublics. The archive of the Nogŭn-ri Massacre itself is shown to have been formed by survivors and activists who demanded an apology and redress from the US military for the massacre. This counterpublic archive was first formed of oral testimony, but increasingly accumulated a growing number of written US military documents repurposed by the activists in the service of archival justice.

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