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The Korean American Dream
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Author : Kyeyoung Park
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
The Korean American Dream written by Kyeyoung Park and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Social Science categories.
Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more than one third of all Korean immigrant adults involved in small businesses. Kyeyoung Park examines this phenomenon in Queens, New York, tracing its historical bases and exploring the transformation of Korean cultural identity prompted by participation in an enterprise. Park documents the ways in which Korean immigrants use entrepreneurship to improve the quality of their lives, focusing on their concerns and anxieties, as well as their joys. The concept of "anjong" is crucial to the lives of first-generation Korean Americans in Queens, Park explains. The word may be translated as "establishment," "stability," or "security," and it identifies a particular concept of success through which Koreans make sense of the American ideology of opportunity. What they seek is not great wealth or social position but rather the creation of their own small businesses as a way of realizing the American dream. The pursuit of "anjong" is important enough to justify changes in gender and kinship relations, resulting in the rise of a Korean American women-centered and sister-initiated kinship structure. Commitment to the concept has also inspired a different understanding of class, ethnicity, and race, and stimulated new religious ideas and practices.
The Korean American Dream
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Author : James Flanigan
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2018-10-15
The Korean American Dream written by James Flanigan and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-15 with Social Science categories.
Chairman Yang Ho Cho, head of Korean Air and Hanjin, talks of Los Angeles as a “microcosm of the United States—a land built of immigrants who want to do one thing: improve their lives.” In The Korean-American Dream, respected and distinguished business journalist James Flanigan uncovers the struggles and contributions of the people who have made Los Angeles the largest Korean city outside of Seoul. This intimate account illustrates how Korean immigrants have preserved their culture and history as well as adapted to the American culture of E Pluribus Unum, the radical promise of “out of many, one.” Flanigan shows how Los Angeles emerged as a capital of the Asia Pacific region. At less than 2 million, Korean Americans are a relatively small group compared to new Americans from China, the Philippines, and India. But with energy and drive, they are building landmarks in New York as well as L.A., lobbying for causes in Washington, founding businesses, heading universities and hospitals, and holding public office in all parts of the U.S. Flanigan’s compelling narrative told largely through personal interviews provides a front-row seat to the economic, business, and cultural developments of the Korean American Community. At a time of spirited debate about immigration, their energy and ambition serve as a ringing reminder of the promise of the American mosaic.
Blue Dreams
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Author : Nancy ABELMANN
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Blue Dreams written by Nancy ABELMANN and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Social Science categories.
No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft socio-historical analysis, Blue Dreams gives these problems a human face and at the same time clarifies the historical, political, and economic factors that render them so complex. In the lives and voices of Korean Americans, the authors locate a profound challenge to cherished assumptions about the United States and its minorities. Why did Koreans come to the United States? Why did they set up shop in poor inner-city neighborhoods? Are they in conflict with African Americans? These are among the many difficult questions the authors answer as they probe the transnational roots and diversity of Los Angeles's Korean Americans. Their work finally shows us in sharp relief and moving detail a community that, despite the blinding media focus brought to bear during the riots, has nonetheless remained largely silent and effectively invisible. An important corrective to the formulaic accounts that have pitted Korean Americans against African Americans, Blue Dreams places the Korean American story squarely at the center of national debates over race, class, culture, and community. Table of Contents: Preface The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story Reckoning via the Riots Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles Korean American Entrepreneurship American Ideologies on Trial Conclusion Notes References Index Reviews of this book: Blue Dreams--a poetic allusion to the clear blue sky that Koreans see as a symbol of freedom--is a welcome exploration by outsiders into the vexing and largely invisible Korean-American predicament in Los Angeles and the nation. [Abelmann and Lie 's] colorful interview subjects offer sharp observations. --K.W. Lee, Los Angeles Times Reviews of this book: An informed and thoughtful examination of Korean immigration to the United States since 1970...[Abelmann and Lie] show that even in a period as short as twenty-five years, there have been successive waves of differently motivated, differently resourced Korean immigrants, and their experiences and reactions have differed accordingly. --Michael Tonry, Times Literary Supplement Reviews of this book: [The authors'] transnational perspective is particularly effective for explicating Korean immigrants' behaviors, activities, and feelings...Interesting and readable. --Pyong Gap Min, American Journal of Sociology Reviews of this book: Beginning with a poetic book title, the authors recount in depth as to how the 'Blue Dreams' of the Korean-American merchants in East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of [the] 1992 riot that turned out to be 'elusive dreams' in America...The book not only portrays the L.A. riot surrounding the Korean merchants, but also characterizes diaspora of the Koreans in America. The authors have also examined with scholarly insights the more complex socioeconomic and political underplay the Koreans encountered in their 'Promised New Land'. --Eugene C. Kim, International Migration Review
Asian American Dreams
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Author : Helen Zia
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2000-03-09
Asian American Dreams written by Helen Zia and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-03-09 with Social Science categories.
The fascinating story of the rise of Asian Americans as a politically and socially influential racial group This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junctures that shocked Asian Americans into motion and shaped a new consciousness, including the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, by two white autoworkers who believed he was Japanese; the apartheid-like working conditions of Filipinos in the Alaska canneries; the boycott of Korean American greengrocers in Brooklyn; the Los Angeles riots; and the casting of non-Asians in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. The book also examines the rampant stereotypes of Asian Americans. Helen Zia, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, was born in the 1950s when there were only 150,000 Chinese Americans in the entire country, and she writes as a personal witness to the dramatic changes involving Asian Americans. Written for both Asian Americans -- the fastest-growing population in the United States -- and non-Asians, Asian American Dreams argues that America can no longer afford to ignore these emergent, vital, and singular American people.
Koreatown Los Angeles
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Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
language : en
Publisher: Asian America
Release Date : 2022
Koreatown Los Angeles written by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee and has been published by Asian America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
The changing face of LA -- A little Seoul sprang up : place entrepreneurs and the "Korea Town concept" -- Searching for Koreatown : generational divides and cultural bridges in Korean America -- A small world : Korean Americans and global Los Angeles -- "Most of these areas were formerly Black" : interracial conflict in South Central and the burning of Koreatown -- A good comeback.
Korean American Patriot S Dream
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Author : Pyong Yong Min
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-07-20
Korean American Patriot S Dream written by Pyong Yong Min and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-20 with categories.
To Document the 299 Korean American Patriots who have been Recognized by the Korean Ministry of Patriots and Veterans
The Intimate University
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Author : Nancy Abelmann
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-11-20
The Intimate University written by Nancy Abelmann and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-20 with Social Science categories.
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping to realize the liberal ideals of the modern American university, in which individuals can exit their comfort zones to realize their full potential regardless of race, nation, or religion. However, these ideals are compromised by their experiences of racial segregation and stereotypes, including images of instrumental striving that set Asian Americans apart. In The Intimate University, Nancy Abelmann explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research with Korean American students at the University of Illinois and closely following multiple generations of a single extended Korean American family in the Chicago metropolitan area, Abelmann investigates the complexity of racial politics at the American university today. Racially hyper-visible and invisible, Korean American students face particular challenges as they try to realize their college dreams against the subtle, day-to-day workings of race. They frequently encounter the accusation of racial self-segregation—a charge accentuated by the fact that many attend the same Evangelical Protestant church—even as they express the desire to distinguish themselves from their families and other Korean Americans. Abelmann concludes by examining the current state of the university, reflecting on how better to achieve the university’s liberal ideals despite its paradoxical celebration of diversity and relative silence on race.
American Dreams Still Alive
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Author : William Y Chey M.D. D.Sc.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-03-24
American Dreams Still Alive written by William Y Chey M.D. D.Sc. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The true story of a Korean - American immigrant as he escaped from North Korean’s atrocious invasion to South Korea and journeyed from the battle fields of the Korean War to pursue his dreams in the United States.
American Dream Learn English Korean Easily With This Novel
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Author : Jeoung Lee
language : en
Publisher: Jeoung Lee
Release Date : 2023-04-03
American Dream Learn English Korean Easily With This Novel written by Jeoung Lee and has been published by Jeoung Lee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-03 with Fiction categories.
This book is written in English and Korean. 이 책은 영어 와 한글로 쓰여져 있다. "AMERICAN DREAM? Learn English/Korean Easily With This Novel" is about an immigrant's survival story. The story follows a nurse, Hanel, through her early life and into the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020. Kirkland, Washington, which appears in this book, is the name of the town where the first COVID-positive case was reported in the United States in 2020. "AMERICAN DREAM? 소설로 영어/한국어 쉽게 배우기"는 미국에서 의 한 이민자의 생존 이야기다. 이 이야기는 간호사 하늘의 어린 시절부터 2020년 COVID-19 전염병이 시작 될 무렵 까지 따라가게 된다. 이 책에 등장하는 "Washington 주의 Kirkland" 은 2020년 미국에서 첫 COVID-19 양성 사례가 보고된 동네의 이름이다. Through this book, the author explores the U.S. government's involvement in South Korean President Park's assassination and the destabilization of the country, which resulted in chaos & turmoil and killed hundreds of innocent people. 저자는 이 책을 통하여 한국 의 박 대통령 의 암살과 정부를 뒤흔들어 혼돈과 혼란을 초래하고 수백 명의 무고한 사람들을 죽게한 것에 대한 미국 정부의 연루된 과정을 탐구한다. The author also explains why some Koreans were forced to leave their homeland and head for the United States for safety when General Jun declared himself the president of the Republic of Korea. Finally, the author intensively and realistically reports the racial discrimination that is taking place in the United States using the example of the medical field in Washington State. 저자는 또한 전 장군이 스스로 대한민국 대통령으로 선언했을 때 일부 한국인들이 안전을 위해 고국을 떠나 미국으로 향할 수밖에 없었던 이유를 설명한다. 마지막으로 저자는 미국 워싱턴주의 의료현장을 예로 들어 미국에서 벌어지고 있는 인종차별을 집약적이고 사실적으로 고발한다.
I Was Their American Dream
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Author : Malaka Gharib
language : en
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Release Date : 2019-04-30
I Was Their American Dream written by Malaka Gharib and has been published by Clarkson Potter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun “[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPR WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews I Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapting to white culture to fit in, crushing on skater boys, and trying to understand the tension between holding onto cultural values and trying to be an all-American kid. Malaka Gharib's triumphant graphic memoir brings to life her teenage antics and illuminates earnest questions about identity and culture, while providing thoughtful insight into the lives of modern immigrants and the generation of millennial children they raised. Malaka's story is a heartfelt tribute to the American immigrants who have invested their future in the promise of the American dream. Praise for I Was Their American Dream “In this time when immigration is such a hot topic, Malaka Gharib puts an engaging human face on the issue. . . . The push and pull first-generation kids feel is portrayed with humor and love, especially humor. . . . Gharib pokes fun at all of the cultures she lives in, able to see each of them with an outsider’s wry eye, while appreciating them with an insider’s close experience. . . . The question of ‘What are you?’ has never been answered with so much charm.”—Marissa Moss, New York Journal of Books “Forthright and funny, Gharib fiercely claims her own American dream.”—Booklist “Thoughtful and relatable, this touching account should be shared across generations.”– Library Journal “This charming graphic memoir riffs on the joys and challenges of developing a unique ethnic identity.”– Publishers Weekly