On my own : Korean businesses and race relations in America In-Jin Yoon

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yun, In-jin, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority business enterprises--United States.

Minority business enterprises.

Korean American businesspeople.

African Americans--Relations with Korean Americans.

African Americans.

Small business--United States.

Small business.

Entrepreneurship--United States.

Entrepreneurship.

Korea (South)--Emigration and immigration.

Korea (South).

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-270) and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0226959279

9780226959276

0226959287

9780226959283

OCLC:

35848950

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