9789004335332

9789004334533 (hardback : alk. paper)

Part 1. Histories of migration and the rise of Korean America

The origins and construction of Korean America: immigration before 1965 / Jane Hong

After the watershed: Korean migration since 1965 / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee

Empire, war, globalization, and Korean America in global and transnational perspectives / Kevin Y. Kim

Adoption in Korean America / Arissa H. Oh

Part 2. Cultural production

Korean American literature / Josephine Nock-Hee Park

"Is that kimchi in my taco?" A vision of Korean American food in one bite / Robert Ji-Song Ku

Korean American theater and performing arts: networks of practice and bodies of work / Ju Yon Kim

Music and Korean America / John Lie

Sports in Korean America / Rachael Miyung Joo

Hallyu and Korean America: transnational connections through cultural consumption in New York City / Jinwon Kim

Part 3. Korean American racial and ethnic formation

The changing dynamics of race, class and gender relations in contemporary Korean immigrant families / Angie Y. Chung

Race-ing the Korean American experience / Nadia Y. Kim

In search of mixed Korean America / Sue-Je Lee Gage

Korean ethnicity and Asian American panethnicity / Ann H. Kim

Transmitting the monumental style: hangukinnon, "diasporicity," and the osmotic flow of transnational Korean American identity / Michael Hurt

Sacred ethnic boundaries: Korean American religions / Jerry Z. Park and Kenneth Vaughan

A review of Korean American education studies: disrupting a single story of model minority success / Sohyun An

Part 4. Gender, sexuality, and kinship

Gender, migration, and mobility in Korean American communities:

A case study of the nail salon industry / Miliann Kang

Gender, beauty, and plastic surgery: towards a Transpacific Korean/American studies / S. Heijin Lee

Closer or estranged: transnational spousal relationships between

Korean wild geese parents / Se Hwa Lee

Toward queer Korean American horizons: diaspora, history, and

Belonging / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee

Korean American women negotiating confucianism, christianity, and immigration in free food for millionaires / Kimberly McKee

Part 5. Politics and activism

Korean Americans and electoral politics / Pei-te Lien and Rhoanne Esteban

Engaging Korean Americans in civic activism / EunSook Lee and Hahrie Han

Korean produce retailers in New York: their conflicts with white

Distributors and use of ethnic collective actions / Pyong Gap Min

A wedge between black and white: Korean Americans and minority

Race relations in twenty-first-century America / Chinbo Chong and Jane Yunhee Junn

Koreatown as political capital / Soo Mee Kim.

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