Blue Dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
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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Korean Americans-California-Los Angeles-History-20th century. Riots-California-Los Angeles-History-20th century. Los Angeles (Calif.)-Ethnic relations.