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Blue Dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674020030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blue DreamsLOC classification:
  • F869
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story -- 2. Reckoning via the Riots -- 3. Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility -- 4. Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles -- 5. Korean American Entrepreneurship -- 6. American Ideologies on Trial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of American society's most vexing issues: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and sociohistorical analysis, Abelmann gives these problems a human face and clarifies the factors that render them so complex.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story -- 2. Reckoning via the Riots -- 3. Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility -- 4. Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles -- 5. Korean American Entrepreneurship -- 6. American Ideologies on Trial -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of American society's most vexing issues: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and sociohistorical analysis, Abelmann gives these problems a human face and clarifies the factors that render them so complex.

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