Bitter Fruit / Claire Jean Kim

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Claire Jean Kim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with Korean Americans--20th century--New York--New York (State).

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government--20th century--New York--New York (State).

Black nationalism--Politics and government--20th century--New York (State)--New York.

Black nationalism.

Korean Americans--Economic conditions--20th Century--New York--New York (State).

Korean Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions--New York--New York (State).

Korean Americans--New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conflict between Blacks and Koreans has increased in American cities during the past two decades. In this timely book, Claire Jean Kim investigates the most prolonged episode of such conflict-the Flatbush Boycott of 1990, when Black nationalist and Haitian activists led a boycott and picketing campaign against two Korean-owned produce stores in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Drawing on years of in-depth interviewing, Kim helps us understand why Black activists engage in such collective actions and why other parties respond as they do.Kim rejects conventional wisdom that Black-Korean conflict constitutes racial scapegoating, the irrational venting of Black rage on Korean merchants. She argues instead that it is in response to White dominance in American society, which generates a distinct racial order that encourages conflict among different groups, provokes racial resistance, and delegitimates and silences such resistance. Kim asserts that the Flatbush Boycott was part of a larger resurgence of Black Power activism in New York City, that Haitian immigrants mobilized out of overlapping transnational and racial identities, and that Korean Americans responded by launching a countermovement seeking to restore the status quo. Racial protests are inevitable, she says, as long as conditions of racial injustice prevail.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ON TERMINOLOGY

1. Exposing Racial Power

2. Racial Ordering

3. Black Power Resurgent

4. The Red Apple Boycott

5. The Korean American Response

6. Manufacturing Outrage

Conclusion: Bitter Fruit

TIMELINE

LIST OF INTERVIEWEES

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300148107

0300148100

OCLC:

1024017892