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Koreatown, Los Angeles - Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream" (Paperback)
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Koreatown, Los Angeles - Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream" (Paperback)
Series: Asian America
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The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared
Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century,
Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000-the
largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this
growth took place following the passage of the Hart-Celler Act of
1965, which dramatically altered US immigration policy and ushered
in a new era of mass immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin
America. By the 1970s, Korean immigrants were seeking to turn the
area around Olympic Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles into a
full-fledged "Koreatown," and over the following decades, they
continued to build a community in LA. As Korean immigrants seized
the opportunity to purchase inexpensive commercial and residential
property and transformed the area to serve their community's needs,
other minority communities in nearby South LA-notably Black and
Latino working-class communities-faced increasing segregation,
urban poverty, and displacement. Beginning with the early
development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los
Angeles riots and their aftermath, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of
racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian
racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of
an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic
achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial
minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and
cultural developments in the United States since 1965. Lee argues
that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean
immigrants and US-born Koreans eager to carve out a spatial niche
within Los Angeles to serve as an economic and social anchor for
their growing community. More than a dot on a map, Koreatown holds
profound emotional significance for Korean immigrants across the
nation as a symbol of their shared bonds and place in American
society.
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