Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States (eBook)

Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities

Thomas Chung, Pyong Gap Min (Herausgeber)

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2014
244 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9142-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of ethnic and racial identities in two generational cohorts of a contemporary immigrant group. Through personal essays, the book reveals how external factors helped younger-generation Korean Americans who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s retain more of their cultural heritage than had preceding generations.

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Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States: Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities compares the formation of the ethnic identities of two distinct cohorts of Korean Americans. Through personal essays, the book explores four influential factors of ethnic identity: retention of ethnic culture; participation in ethnic social networks; links to the mother country and its global power and influence; and experiences with racial prejudice and discrimination. The essays reflect certain major changes between the two cohortsthe first growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s and the second growing up during the 1980s and early 1990s and proves how an increase in the Korean population and in the number of ethnic organizations helped the second-cohort Korean Americans retain their cultural heritage in a more voluntary, and therefore meaningful, way. This book's combination of first-hand experiences and critical analysis makes it a valuable resource for studies of ethnicity, culture, identity formation, and the Asian-American experience.

Autor

Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also serves as director of the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College. Thomas Chung is a writer and editor for the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College. He is also a PhD student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction - Pyong Gap Min and Thomas ChungPart 2: The Earlier Cohort-1Authenticity Dilemma among Pre-1965 Native-Born Koreans - Linda ParkPart 3: The Earlier Cohort-2 My Trek - Rose KimA Handicapped Korean in America - Alex JeongReflections on a Korean-American Journey - Ruth ChungPart 4: The Later Cohort, Group1 Growing Up Korean American: Navigating a Complex Search for Belonging - Brenda ChungHow to Be a Korean - Sun ParkToo American to Be Korean, Too Korean to Be American: A Second-Generation Outsider’s Account - Thomas ChungThe Way I See It - Bora LeePart 5: The Later Cohort, Group 2Miyeok Guk for the Korean Soul - Helene K. LeeAnyone Ever Tell You that You Look Like…? - Dave HahnFamily Matters: Emerging Adulthood and the Evolution of My Ethno-Racial Identity - Sung S. ParkPart 6: The Later Cohort, Group 3 The Outlier - Katherine Yungmee Kim할머니안녕? (Halmuhnee Ahn-Nyung?) - Alexandra NohWhat it Means to Be Korean - Hyein LeePart 7: Comments Chapter - Pyong Gap Min and Thomas Chung

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2014
• Co-Autor: Brenda Chung, Hyein Lee, Alexandra Noh, Linda Park, Sun Park, Sung S. Park, Ruth Chung, Thomas Chung, Dave Hahn, Alex Jeong, Katherine Yungmee Kim, Rose Kim, Bora Lee, Helene K. Lee
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 2 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Asian American • ethic networks • Korean Studies • Migration Studies • second-generation • transnational
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-9142-X / 073919142X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-9142-2 / 9780739191422