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

Personal Narratives on Ethnic and Racial Identities
Redaktion: Min, Pyong Gap; Chung, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 cohorts-the 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216274964
• Artikelnr.: 74832911

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction
Pyong Gap Min and Thomas Chung Part 2: The Earlier Cohort
1 Authenticity Dilemma among Pre
1965 Native
Born Koreans
Linda Park Part 3: The Earlier Cohort
2 My Trek
Rose Kim A Handicapped Korean in America
Alex Jeong Reflections on a Korean
American Journey
Ruth Chung Part 4: The Later Cohort, Group1 Growing Up Korean American: Navigating a Complex Search for Belonging
Brenda Chung How to Be a Korean
Sun Park Too American to Be Korean, Too Korean to Be American: A Second
Generation Outsider's Account
Thomas Chung The Way I See It
Bora Lee Part 5: The Later Cohort, Group 2 Miyeok Guk for the Korean Soul
Helene K. Lee Anyone Ever Tell You that You Look Like.?
Dave Hahn Family Matters: Emerging Adulthood and the Evolution of My Ethno
Racial Identity
Sung S. Park Part 6: The Later Cohort, Group 3 The Outlier
Katherine Yungmee Kim ?????? (Halmuhnee Ahn
Nyung?)
Alexandra Noh What it Means to Be Korean
Hyein Lee Part 7: Comments Chapter
Pyong Gap Min and Thomas Chung