Preface The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story Reckoning via the Riots Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles Korean American Entrepreneurship American Ideologies on Trial Conclusion Notes References Index
Nancy Abelmann is Henry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, and East Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. John Lie is C. K. Cho Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
An informed and thoughtful examination of Korean immigration to the
United States since 1970… [Abelmann and Lie] show that even in a
period as short as twenty-five years, there have been successive
waves of differently motivated, differently resourced Korean
immigrants, and their experiences and reactions have differed
accordingly.
*Times Literary Supplement*
[The authors’] transnational perspective is particularly effective
for explicating Korean immigrants’ behaviors, activities, and
feelings… Interesting and readable.
*American Journal of Sociology*
Beginning with a poetic book title, the authors recount in depth as
to how the ‘Blue Dreams’ of the Korean-American merchants in East
Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of [the] 1992 riot that
turned out to be ‘elusive dreams’ in America… The book not only
portrays the L.A. riot surrounding the Korean merchants, but also
characterizes diaspora of the Koreans in America. The authors have
also examined with scholarly insights the more complex
socioeconomic and political underplay the Koreans encountered in
their ‘Promised New Land.’
*International Migration Review*
Blue Dreams—a poetic allusion to the clear blue sky that Koreans
see as a symbol of freedom—is a welcome exploration by outsiders
into the vexing and largely invisible Korean-American predicament
in Los Angeles and the nation. [Abelmann and Lie’s] colorful
interview subjects offer sharp observations.
*Los Angeles Times*
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