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On my own : Korean businesses and race relations in America

Author: In-Jin Yoon
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 pattern of Korean immigration, entrepreneurship, and race relations with other minority groups. He explains how small  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: In-Jin Yoon
ISBN: 0226959279 9780226959276 0226959287 9780226959283
OCLC Number: 35848950
Description: xii, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: The state of immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship in America --
The social origins of Korean immigration to the United States, 1903 to the present --
Class, family, and ethnicity in Korean immigrant entrepreneurship --
Who is my neighbor? : Korean-Black relations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City.
Responsibility: In-Jin Yoon.
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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 pattern 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.

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