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Amerikanen van Vietnamese origine --- Américains asiatiques --- Américains d'origine japonaise --- Américains d'origine vietnamienne --- Asian Americans --- Aziatische Amerikanen --- Cambodian Americans --- Chinese Americans --- East Indian Americans --- Filipino Americans --- Japanese Americans --- Japanse Amerikanen --- Korean Americans --- Laotian Americans --- Vietnamese Americans --- #KVHA:Volkeren; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:American Studies --- Chinese Amerikanen --- Sino-Américains --- Asians --- Ethnology

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In this unflinching exploration of one of the most politically charged topics of our time, Pyong Gap Min investigates the racial dynamics that exist between Korean merchants, the African American community, and white society in general. Focusing on hostility toward Korean merchants in New York and Los Angeles, Min explains how the "middleman" economic role Koreans often occupy-between low-income, minority customers on the one hand and large corporate suppliers on the other-leads to conflicts with other groups. Further, Min shows how ethnic conflicts strengthen ties within Korean communities as Koreans organize to protect themselves and their businesses.Min scrutinizes the targeting of Korean businesses during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1990 African American boycotts of Korean stores in Brooklyn. He explores Korean merchants' relationships with each other as well as with Latin American employees, Jewish suppliers and landlords, and government agencies. In each case, his nuanced analysis reveals how Korean communities respond to general scapegoating through collective action, political mobilization, and other strategies.Fluent in Korean, Min draws from previously unutilized sources, including Korean American newspapers and in-depth interviews with immigrants. His findings belie the media's sensationalistic coverage of African American-Korean conflicts. Instead, Caught in the Middle yields a sophisticated and clear-sighted understanding of the lives and challenges of immigrant merchants in America.

Korean Americans --- Korean American business enterprises --- Business enterprises, Korean American --- Korean American-owned business enterprises --- Business enterprises --- Ethnology --- Koreans --- New York (N.Y.) --- Los Angeles (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- E-books --- Minority Business Enterprises --- Social Science --- Business & Economics --- California --- Los Angeles. --- New York (State) --- New York.

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Arguably the most brutal crime committed by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific war was the forced mobilization of 50,000 to 200,000 Asian women to military brothels to sexually serve Japanese soldiers. The majority of these women died, unable to survive the ordeal. Those survivors who came back home kept silent about their brutal experiences for about fifty years. In the late 1980s, the women’s movement in South Korea helped start the redress movement for the victims, encouraging many survivors to come forward to tell what happened to them. With these testimonies, the redress movement gained strong support from the UN, the United States, and other Western countries. Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Women and war --- Women --- Comfort women --- Sexual abuse victims --- Service, Compulsory non-military --- Reparations for historical injustices. --- Atrocities --- Crimes against --- History. --- Genocide, Politics, Political Violence, Human Rights, Gender Role, Military, Movements, Korea, Brutality, Sexual Slavery, Redress Movement, U.S., Immigrants, Victims, Exploitation, Japan, Torture, brothels, War crimes.

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Koreans in North America covers various topics related to Korean experiences in the U.S. and Canada, including their immigration and settlement patterns, changes in business patterns, and identity, comprehensively. It also focuses on Korean Americans' twenty-first century experiences, using both quantitative and qualitative data.

Korean Americans --- Koreans --- History. --- United States --- Canada --- Korea --- Emigration and immigration.

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