On My Own : Korean Businesses and Race Relations in America.

The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants naive belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent through small businesses of their own. However, the riots...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yoon, In-Jin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Temas:
African Americans > Relations with Korean Americans.
Entrepreneurship > United States.
Korean American businesspeople.
Minority business enterprises > United States.
Small business > United States.
Noirs américains > Relations avec les Américains d'origine coréenne.
Entrepreneuriat > États-Unis.
Gens d'affaires américains d'origine coréenne.
Entreprises appartenant à des minorités > États-Unis.
African Americans > Relations with Korean Americans
Emigration and immigration
Entrepreneurship
Korean American businesspeople
Minority business enterprises
Small business
Korea (South) > Emigration and immigration.
Corée du Sud > Émigration et immigration.
Korea (South)
United States
korea, asian, asia, eastern, race, racism, racial, america, american, united states, usa, international, los angeles, riots, dream, immigrant, immigration, shopkeeper, business, commerce, class, poverty, wealth, income, finance, classism, fieldwork, black, african, chicago, urban, city, neighborhood, minority, minorities, relationships, interpersonal.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Los Angeles riots shattered Korean immigrants naive belief in the American dream. As many as 2,300 Korean shopkeepers lost their lifetime investments in one day. Korean immigrants had struggled for years to become economically independent through small businesses of their own. However, the riots made them realize how fragile their economic base is because their businesses are dependent on the impoverished, oppressed, and rebellious classes. In On My Own, In-Jin Yoon combines an intimate fieldwork account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles with extensive quantitative anal.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (290 pages)
ISBN:9780226959290
0226959295

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