No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of
armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses
went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean
Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them?
"Blue Dreams" is the first book to make sense of these questions,
to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant
seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting
African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social
reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots.
The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some
of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic
conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and
ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft
socio-historical analysis, "Blue Dreams" gives these problems a
human face and at the same time clarifies the historical,
political, and economic factors that render them so complex. In the
lives and voices of Korean Americans, the authors locate a profound
challenge to cherished assumptions about the United States and its
minorities.
Why did Koreans come to the United States? Why did they set up
shop in poor inner-city neighborhoods? Are they in conflict with
African Americans? These are among the many difficult questions the
authors answer as they probe the transnational roots and diversity
of Los Angeles's Korean Americans. Their work finally shows us in
sharp relief and moving detail a community that, despite the
blinding media focus brought to bear during the riots, has
nonetheless remained largely silent and effectively invisible. An
important corrective to the formulaicaccounts that have pitted
Korean Americans against African Americans, "Blue Dreams" places
the Korean American story squarely at the center of national
debates over race, class, culture, and community.
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