Full Description
A Companion to Korean American Studies presents interdisciplinary works from a number of authors who have contributed to the field of Korean American Studies. This collection ranges from chapters detailing the histories of Korean migration to the United States to contemporary flows of popular culture between South Korea and the United States. The authors present on Korean American history, gender relations, cultural formations, social relations, and politics.
Contributors are: Sohyun An, Chinbo Chong, Angie Y. Chung, Rhoanne Esteban, Sue-Je Lee Gage, Hahrie Han, Jane Hong, Michael Hurt, Rachael Miyung Joo, Jane Junn, Miliann Kang, Ann H. Kim, Anthony Yooshin Kim, Eleana Kim, Jinwon Kim, Ju Yon Kim, Kevin Y. Kim, Nadia Y. Kim, Soo Mee Kim, Robert Ji-Song Ku, EunSook Lee, Se Hwa Lee, S. Heijin Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee, John Lie, Pei-te Lien, Kimberly McKee, Pyong Gap Min, Arissa H. Oh, Edward J.W. Park, Jerry Z. Park, Josephine Nock-Hee Park, Margaret Rhee and Kenneth Vaughan.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Rachael Miyung Joo and Shelley Lee
Part 1: Histories of Migration and the Rise of Korean America
1 The Origins and Construction of Korean America: Immigration before 1965
Jane Hong
2 After the Watershed: Korean Migration since 1965
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
3 Empire, War, Globalization, and Korean America in Global and Transnational Perspectives
Kevin Y. Kim
4 Adoption in Korean America
Arissa H. Oh
Part 2: Cultural Production
5 Korean American Literature
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
6 "Is that Kimchi in My Taco?" A Vision of Korean American Food in One Bite
Robert Ji-Song Ku
7 Korean American Theater and Performing Arts: Networks of Practice and Bodies of Work
Ju Yon Kim
8 Music and Korean America
John Lie
9 Sports in Korean America
Rachael Miyung Joo
10 Hallyu and Korean America: Transnational Connections through Cultural Consumption in New York City
Jinwon Kim
Part 3: Korean American Racial and Ethnic Formation
11 The Changing Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender Relations in Contemporary Korean Immigrant Families
Angie Y. Chung
12 Race-ing the Korean American Experience
Nadia Y. Kim
13 In Search of Mixed Korean America
Sue-Je Lee Gage
14 Korean Ethnicity and Asian American Panethnicity
Ann H. Kim
15 Transmitting the Monumental Style: Hangukinnon, "Diasporicity," and the Osmotic Flow of Transnational Korean American Identity
Michael Hurt
16 Sacred Ethnic Boundaries: Korean American Religions
Jerry Z. Park and Kenneth Vaughan
17 A Review of Korean American Education Studies: Disrupting a Single Story of Model Minority Success
Sohyun An
Part 4: Gender, Sexuality, and Kinship
18 Gender, Migration, and Mobility in Korean American Communities: A Case Study of the Nail Salon Industry
Miliann Kang
19 Gender, Beauty, and Plastic Surgery: Towards a Transpacific Korean/American Studies
S. Heijin Lee
20 Closer or Estranged: Transnational Spousal Relationships between Korean Wild Geese Parents
Se Hwa Lee
21 Toward Queer Korean American Horizons: Diaspora, History, and Belonging
Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee
22 Korean American Women Negotiating Confucianism, Christianity, and Immigration in Free Food for Millionaires
Kimberly McKee
Part 5: Politics and Activism
23 Korean Americans and Electoral Politics
Pei-te Lien and Rhoanne Esteban
24 Engaging Korean Americans in Civic Activism
EunSook Lee and Hahrie Han
25 Korean Produce Retailers in New York: Their Conflicts with White Distributors and Use of Ethnic Collective Actions
Pyong Gap Min
26 A Wedge between Black and White: Korean Americans and Minority Race Relations in Twenty-First-Century America
Chinbo Chong and Jane Yunhee Junn
27 Koreatown as Political Capital
Soo Mee Kim
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