Becoming Asian American Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities

Name: Becoming Asian American Second-Generation Chinese and Korean American Identities
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ISBN: 9780801877445

ISBN-10: 080187744X

ISBN-13: 9780801877445

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nazli Kibria

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In Becoming Asian American, Nazli Kibria draws upon extensive interviews she conducted with second-generation Chinese and Korean Americans in Boston and Los Angeles who came of age during the 1980s and 1990s to explore the dynamics of race, identity, and adaptation within these communities. Moving beyond the frameworks created to study other racial minorities and ethnic whites, she examines the various strategies used by members of this group to define themselves as both Asian and American. In her discussions on such topics as childhood, interaction with non-Asian Americans, college, work, and the problems of intermarriage and child-raising, Kibria finds wide discrepancies between the…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 8/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments



Asian Americans and the Puzzle of New Immigrant Integration



Growing up Chinese and American, Korean and American



The Everyday Consequences of Being Asian: Ethnic Options and Ethnic Binds



College and Asian American Identity



The Model Minority at Work



Ethnic Futures: Children and Intermarriage



Becoming Asian American


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