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Russian Americans --- Korean Americans --- Books and reading --- Riots
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Academic achievement --- Children of immigrants --- Korean Americans --- Education --- Education
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Bilingualism --- Bilingualism --- Bilingualism. --- Korean Americans --- Korean Americans --- Literacy --- Literacy. --- Second language acquisition. --- Second language acquisition. --- Education. --- Education. --- California. --- United States.
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Américains d'origine coréenne --- Chanteurs --- Korean Americans --- Korean Americans. --- Musiciens rock --- Rock musicians --- Rock musicians. --- Singers --- Singers. --- Zauner, Michelle. --- United States.
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Korean American arts. --- Arts, Korean --- Korean Americans. --- Popular culture --- Korea (South) --- Civilization.
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The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000—the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place following the passage of the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which dramatically altered US immigration policy and ushered in a new era of mass immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin America. By the 1970s, Korean immigrants were seeking to turn the area around Olympic Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles into a full-fledged "Koreatown," and over the following decades, they continued to build a community in LA. As Korean immigrants seized the opportunity to purchase inexpensive commercial and residential property and transformed the area to serve their community's needs, other minority communities in nearby South LA—notably Black and Latino working-class communities—faced increasing segregation, urban poverty, and displacement. Beginning with the early development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965. Lee argues that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans eager to carve out a spatial niche within Los Angeles to serve as an economic and social anchor for their growing community. More than a dot on a map, Koreatown holds profound emotional significance for Korean immigrants across the nation as a symbol of their shared bonds and place in American society.
Immigrants --- Korean Americans --- Minorities --- Racism against Asians --- Social conditions --- History --- Koreatown (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Race relations --- 1992 Los Angeles Riots. --- 1992 Los Angeles Uprising. --- Asian American history. --- Korea Town. --- Korean Americans. --- Koreatown. --- Los Angeles. --- US History.
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"Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese War. Her father labored in the sugar plantations of Hawaii for a year and a half before taking his family to California, where Mrs. Lee has lived ever since. Though her father knew the comforts enjoyed by the educated traditional elite in Korea, after emigration he and his family shared the poverty stricken existence endured by thousands of Asian immigrants in early twentieth century America. Mrs. Lee's parents earned their living as farm laborers, tenant farmers, cooks, and janitors, and the family always took in laundry. Her father tried mercury mining until his health gave out. In their turn, Mrs. Lee and her husband farmed, sold produce, and managed apartment buildings. The author is engagingly outspoken and is extremely observant of her social and natural surroundings. Recounted incidents take on memorable life, as do the sharply etched settings of California's agricultural and mining country. She tells of singular hardship surmounted with resilience and characteristic grace. During much of her life Asian Americans were not treated as full human beings, yet she kept a powerful vision of what the United States could be"--
Lee, Mary Paik, --- Korean Americans --- Korean American women --- Immigrants --- United States --- Korea --- Emigration and immigration --- History --- Women --- Women, Korean American
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