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Koreatown, Los Angeles : immigration, race, and the "American dream" /
"Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles's Korean population stood at about 186,000--the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Asian America.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The changing face of LA
- A little Seoul sprang up : place entrepreneurs and the Koreatown concept
- Searching for Koreatown : generational divides and cultural bridges in Korean America
- A small world : Korean Americans and global Los Angeles
- "Most of these areas were formerly Black" : interracial conflict in South Central and the burning of Koreatown
- A good comeback
- Epilogue: The Americanization of Koreatown and Koreatown-ification of Los Angeles.