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On my own [[electronic resource] ] : Korean businesses and race relations in America / / In-Jin Yoon



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Autore: Yun In-jin <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: On my own [[electronic resource] ] : Korean businesses and race relations in America / / In-Jin Yoon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (290 p.)
Disciplina: 338.6/422/089957073
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Relations with Korean Americans
Entrepreneurship - United States
Korean American businesspeople
Minority business enterprises - United States
Small business - United States
Soggetto geografico: Korea (South) Emigration and immigration
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-270) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. The State of Immigrant and Ethnic Entrepreneurship in America -- Two. The Social Origins of Korean Immigration to the United States, 1903 to the Present -- Three. Class, Family, and Ethnicity in Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship -- Four. Who Is My Neighbor? : Korean-Black Relations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City -- Five. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants' naïve belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent through small businesses of their own. However, the riots made them realize how fragile their economic base is because their businesses are dependent on the impoverished, oppressed, and rebellious classes. In On My Own, In-Jin Yoon combines an intimate fieldwork account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles with extensive quantitative analysis at the national level. Yoon argues that a complete understanding of the contemporary Korean-American community requires systematic analyses of patterns of Korean immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations with other minority groups. He explains how small business has become the major economic activity of Korean immigrants and how Korean businesses in minority neighborhoods have intensified racial tensions between Koreans and minorities like blacks and Latinos. "A groundbreaking study of Korean-black relations. Yoon's insights on immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations significantly enhance our understanding of urban racial tensions."-William Julius Wilson, Harvard University
Titolo autorizzato: On my own  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-22413-8
0-226-95929-5
9786611224134
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910458338703321
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