Diversity within the Korean Diaspora

Abstract

Utilizing Rita Nakashima Brock’s notion of interstitial integrity, this chapter names Korean American women’s social and reading location interstitial spaces—worlds between Asia and America, centers and margins, home and foreign land, and multiple spaces in between. A Korean American woman’s reading of the Bible from an interstitial space refuses to disconnect from any multiple and in-between locations and borders wherein she resides. While not pledging allegiance to a singular space, one may pursue solidarity with others who also live in various interstices for the wholeness of all. Using such principles, this chapter reads the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard as God’s invitation to solidarity for justice across various borders. The parable teaches the danger of the demanding equal rights without first fighting for equity and the liberation of the most marginalized. The parable calls for solidarity of all people to bring forth the reign of God, a community of “WEs.”