Dr Rebecca King O'Riain

Biography
Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology with research interests in: globalization, popular culture, emotions, and technology; racial/ethnic beauty pageants (Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants - University of Minnesota Press); critical race theory; qualitative methods; interracial marriage and multiracial people (Global Mixed Race - New York University Press). Her current research explores globalized interpersonal and interactive forms of bodily culture through skin-altering practices in Asia and Europe, beauty pageants (for more on beauty pageants listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswrld), and Asian popular culture (Korean and Japanese popular music and dramas). For a recent piece on Korean Popular Culture see: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/1011/1252930-squid-game-netflix-korea-culture-society/
Research Interests
Globalization, emotions and technology; racial/ethnic beauty pageants, critical race theory; qualitative methods; interracial marriage and multiracial people, skin altering practices (beauty) in Asia and Europe, Japanese and Korean popular culture
Research Projects
Book
Peer Reviewed Journal
Year | Publication | |
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2022 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2022) 'Loving the Stranger: Mixed Couples and Mixed Emotions'. Simmel Studies, . [Link] | |
2022 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2022) '#Wasian Check: Remixing ‘Asian + White’ Multiraciality on TikTok'. Genealogy, 55 . https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020055 [Full-Text] | |
2021 | King-O’Riain R.C. (2021) '“They were having so much fun, so genuinely..”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity'. New Media and Society, 29 (3):2820-2838. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2019 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2019) 'How the Irish Became More Than White: Mixed-Race Irishness in Historical and Contemporary Contexts'. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47 (4):821-837. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2018 | King-O’Riain R. (2018) 'What’s Love Got To Do With It? Emotional Authority and State Regulation of Interracial/national Couples in Ireland'. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39 (4):494-509. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2016 | King-O'Riain R. (2016) 'Enduring or crossing distance for love? Negotiating love and distance in the lives of mixed transnational couples'. Sociological Research Online, 21 (1). [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2015 | King-O'Riain, RC (2015) 'Emotional streaming and transconnectivity: Skype and emotion practices in transnational families in Ireland'. Global Networks, 15 :256-273. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2008 | King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2008) 'Making the Perfect Queen: The Cultural Production of Identity in Beauty Pageants'. Sociology Compass, 2 :74-83. [Full-Text] | |
2008 | King-O'Riain R. (2008) 'Target earning/learning, settling or trampolining? Polish and Chinese immigrants in Ireland'. Irish Geography, 41 (2):211-223. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2007 | King-O'Riain, RC (2007) 'Counting on the ' Celtic Tiger ' - Adding ethnic census categories in the Republic of Ireland'. Ethnicities, 7 :516-542. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2000 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko (2000) 'Racialization, Recognition and Rights: Lumping and Splitting Multiracial Asian Americans and the 2000 Census'. JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 3 :191-217. [Full-Text] | |
1997 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko (1997) 'Multiraciality Reigns Supreme? Mixed Race Japanese Americans and the Cherry Blossom Queen Pageant'. Amerasia Journal, 23 :113-128. [Full-Text] |
Book Chapter
Year | Publication | |
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2019 | King-O'Riain, RC (2019) 'Mixed-Race Japanese American Millennials Millennials or Japanese Americans?' In: JAPANESE AMERICAN MILLENNIALS: RETHINKING GENERATION, COMMUNITY, AND DIVERSITY. PHILADELPHIA : TEMPLE UNIV PRESS. | |
2019 | King-O’Riain R.C. (2019) 'Public multiculturalism and/or private multiculturality?' In: Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology: Second Edition. New York : Routledge. [DOI] | |
2017 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2017) 'Cherry Blossom Dreams: Racial Eligibility Rules, Hapas and Japanese American Beauty Pageants' In: Hapa Japan. California : Ito Center Editions Kaya Press. | |
2013 | Kerr A.; King-O'Riain R.; Titley G. (2013) 'Transnational media networks and the 'migration nation'' In: Migrations: Ireland in a global world. Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press. | |
2014 | King-O'Riain R. (2014) ''Going home' to where the heart is: Mixed international families in the Republic of Ireland' In: The 'Irish' Family (Linda Connolly ed). London : Routledge. [DOI] | |
2016 | Rebecca Chiyoko King O'Riain (2016) 'Purity, Racial' In: The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism. London : Wiley Blackwell. [DOI] | |
2015 | Dr Rebecca Chiyoko King O'Riain (2015) 'Transkonnektiver Raum, Emotionen, und Skype: Binationale Paare in Irland' In: Die Ambivalenz Der Gefuhle. Germany : Springer. | |
2015 | Dr Rebecca Chiyoko King O'Riain (2015) 'Multiracial' In: Keywords in Asian American Studies. New York : New York University Press. [Full-Text] | |
2013 | King-O'Riain R. (2013) 'Transconnective space, emotions, and skype: The transnational emotional practices of mixed international couples in the Republic of Ireland' In: Internet and Emotions. London : Taylor and Francis/Routledge. [DOI] [Full-Text] | |
2012 | King-O'Riain, RC (2012) 'Is no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama?' In: OBAMA AND THE BIRACIAL FACTOR: THE BATTLE FOR A NEW AMERICAN MAJORITY. BRISTOL : POLICY PRESS. [Full-Text] | |
2011 | King-O'Riain, RC (2011) 'Media Perspectives on Chinese Migrants in Ireland' In: GLOBALIZATION, MIGRATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: IRELAND IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD. ALDERSHOT : ASHGATE PUBLISHING LTD. [Full-Text] | |
2010 | King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2010) '“The Experience of Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from Self-Report Data”' In: Making Equality Count: Irish and International Research Measuring Equality and Discrimination. Dublin : Liffey Press. [Full-Text] | |
2010 | King-O'Riain, Dr, Rebecca Chiyoko (2010) 'From Public Multiculturalism to Private Multiculturality' In: Handbook of Cultural Sociology. New York : Routledge. | |
2009 | King-Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko. (2009) 'Beauty Queens' In: Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press. [Full-Text] | |
2008 | King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2008) '“Beauty Pageants”' In: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Contemporary Asian American Issues. Westport, CT, USA : Greenwood Publishing Group. | |
2008 | King-Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2008) 'Miss China Ireland' In: Belongings: Shaping Identity in Modern Ireland. Dublin, Ireland : Irish Public Administration. [Full-Text] | |
2006 | King-Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2006) 'Re-Racialising the Irish State through the Census, Citizenship, and Language' In: Race and State. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press. [Full-Text] | |
2005 | King-Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2005) 'Miss Cherry Blossom Meets Mainstream America:' In: East Main Street:Asian American Popular Culture. New York : New York University Press. [Full-Text] | |
2004 | King-Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2004) 'Tracing Race to a Multiracial Majority in the Japanese American Community' In: The Politics of Multiraciality. New York : State University of New York Press. | |
2002 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko (2002) 'Eligible to be Japanese American: Counting on Multiraciality in Japanese American Basketball Leagues and Beauty Pageants' In: Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersections and Divergences. Philadelphia : Temple University Press. | |
2001 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko (2001) 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Mapping Discussions of Feminism, Race and Beauty on Mixed Race Japanese American Women' In: The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans. Philadelphia : Temple University Press. | |
1996 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko and DaCosta, Kimberly McClain (1996) 'Changing Face, Changing Race: The Making and Remaking of Race in the Japanese American and African American Communities' In: The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier. Newbury Park, CA : Sage Publications. [Full-Text] |
Conference Contribution
Published Report
Year | Publication | |
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2010 | Titley, Gavan, Kerr, Aphra and King O Riain, Rebecca (2010) Broadcasting in the New Ireland-Mapping & Envisioning Cultural Diversity Broadcasting. Broadcasting authority of Ireland, . [Link] [Full-Text] | |
2006 | Ying Yun Wang with Rebecca C. King-O'Riain (2006) Chinese Students in Ireland. National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, . | |
2006 | Katarzyna Kropiwiec with Rebecca C. King-O'Riain (2006) Polish Migrant Workers in Ireland. National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, . | |
2001 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko and Sean O'Riain (2001) Participation and Service: The Japanese American Community in Chicago. Japanese American Service Committee, . | |
2000 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko; David Omori, Dean Osaki, and Jill Shiraki (2000) Charting Course and Shifting Direction for the Nikkei Community. Japanese American Consortium of Community Related Organizations, . | |
1998 | Kich, George; Rebecca Chiyoko King and Larry Shinagawa (1998) Intermarriages and Hapas. Nikkei Heritage, . | |
1998 | King, Rebecca Chiyoko and Sean O'Riain (1998) Participation and Possiblities. Japanese American Consortium of Community Related Organizations, . |
Book Review
Year | Publication | |
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2011 | King O'Riain, Dr Rebecca Chiyoko (2011) review of Caitríona Ní Laoire, Fina Carpena-Méndez, Naomi Tyrrell and Allen White, “Childhood and Migration in Europe: Portraits of Mobility, Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland.”. [Book Review] | |
2010 | King O'Riain, Dr Rebecca Chiyoko (2010) Review of Aoki, Andrew and Takeda, Okiyoshi. “Asian American Politics”. [Book Review] | |
2009 | King Ó Riain, R.C. (2009) Gendered Work in Asian Cities: The New Economy and Changing Labour Markets. [Book Review] | |
2006 | King-O'Riain, RC (2006) Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the present. CHAMPAIGN: [Book Review] | |
2006 | King Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2006) Review of Bill Hosokawa. Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present. [Book Review] [Full-Text] | |
2003 | King Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2003) Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival 1934-1990. [Book Review] [Full-Text] | |
2002 | Chiyoko King Ó Riain, Rebecca (2002) Relative/Outsider: The Art and Politics of Identity Among Mixed Heritage Students. [Book Review] | |
2001 | King Ó Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko (2001) Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. [Book Review] |
Magazine Article
Year | Publication | |
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2021 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2021) Why is Squid Game is so Popular?. [Magazine Article] [Link] https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/1011/1252930-squid-game-netflix-korea-culture-society/ | |
2020 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2020) What Parasite tells us about life in modern Korea. [Magazine Article] [Link] | |
2019 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2019) The Irish Angle to the Rise and Rise of K-pop. [Magazine Article] https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/1204/1096912-the-irish-angle-to-the-rise-and-rise-of-k-pop/ | |
2018 | Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain (2018) K-pop - music, not missiles, is shaping the worldview of Korea. [Magazine Article] [Link] |
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Honors and Awards
Teaching Interests
Critical Race and Ethnic Ireland, Structures of Inequality, Research Methods, Research Design for PhD Students, Race/Ethnicity, Social Worlds of Children, Beauty and Popular Culture