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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806944103321

Autore

Kim Dae Young <1968->

Titolo

Second-generation Korean Americans [[electronic resource] ] : the struggle for full inclusion / / Dae Young Kim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2013

ISBN

1-59332-719-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

New Americans : recent immigration and American society

Disciplina

973/.04957

Soggetti

Korean Americans

Children of immigrants - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: ""Harvard, Harvard, Harvard!"": The Pursuit of Elite High Schools and Colleges; Chapter Three: ""Not a Deli. That's Too Hard."": From Korean Immigrant Small Businesses to Professional Occupations; Chapter Four: ""They Know Only Three Careers-Medicine, Law, and Engineering."": Second-Generation Job Search and Work Experience; Chapter Five: ""You Drive Anywhere West of Pennsylvania ... and People Stare."": Racial Othering and Its Impact on Second-Generation Identities

Chapter Six: ""He Just Avoids Korean Americns Like the Plague."": Second-Generation Responses to Racialization Chapter Seven: ""Politicians, It's All Talk and No Action."": The Struggle for Political Integration; Chapter Eight: Conclusion: The Making of Ethnic and Pan-ethnic Identities; Appendix A: Binary logistic regression - education; Appendix B: Korean American self-employment and occupation; Appendix C: Binary logistic regression - politics; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Kim argues that educational and occupational success for groups in the racial middle such as Korean and Asian Americans does not necessarily translate into further integration in other sectors of American society. Educational and professional accomplishments, while accelerating integration and acceptance, can be accompanied by exclusion in other sectors of society. Thus, Korean and Asian Americans may experience rapid intergenerational upward mobility and integration, but still be subject racialization and exclusion. This challenges the assimilation



paradigm that immigrants and their children