A companion to Korean American studies / / edited by Rachael Miyung, Joo Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.

• TeilnehmendeR: Joo, Rachael Miyung, 1975-; Lee, Shelley Sang-Hee, 1975-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Americas: History, Societies, Environments and Cultures ; Volume 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (727 pages).

Table of Contents

Part 1. Histories of migration and the rise of Korean America -- The origins and construction of Korean America: immigration before 1965 / Jane Hong -- After the watershed: Korean migration since 1965 / Shelley Sang-Hee Lee -- Empire, war, globalization, and Korean America in global and transnational perspectives / Kevin Y. Kim -- Adoption in Korean America / Arissa H. Oh -- Part 2. Cultural production -- Korean American literature / Josephine Nock-Hee Park -- "Is that kimchi in my taco?" A vision of Korean American food in one bite / Robert Ji-Song Ku -- Korean American theater and performing arts: networks of practice and bodies of work / Ju Yon Kim -- Music and Korean America / John Lie -- Sports in Korean America / Rachael Miyung Joo -- Hallyu and Korean America: transnational connections through cultural consumption in New York City / Jinwon Kim --

Part 3. Korean American racial and ethnic formation -- The changing dynamics of race, class and gender relations in contemporary Korean immigrant families / Angie Y. Chung -- Race-ing the Korean American experience / Nadia Y. Kim -- In search of mixed Korean America / Sue-Je Lee Gage -- Korean ethnicity and Asian American panethnicity / Ann H. Kim -- Transmitting the monumental style: hangukinnon, "diasporicity," and the osmotic flow of transnational Korean American identity / Michael Hurt -- Sacred ethnic boundaries: Korean American religions / Jerry Z. Park and Kenneth Vaughan -- A review of Korean American education studies: disrupting a single story of model minority success / Sohyun An -- Part 4. Gender, sexuality, and kinship -- Gender, migration, and mobility in Korean American communities: -- A case study of the nail salon industry / Miliann Kang -- Gender, beauty, and plastic surgery: towards a Transpacific Korean/American studies / S. Heijin Lee -- Closer or estranged: transnational spousal relationships between -- Korean wild geese parents / Se Hwa Lee -- Toward queer Korean American horizons: diaspora, history, and -- Belonging / Anthony Yooshin Kim and Margaret Rhee -- Korean American women negotiating confucianism, christianity, and immigration in free food for millionaires / Kimberly McKee -- Part 5. Politics and activism -- Korean Americans and electoral politics / Pei-te Lien and Rhoanne Esteban -- Engaging Korean Americans in civic activism / EunSook Lee and Hahrie Han -- Korean produce retailers in New York: their conflicts with white -- Distributors and use of ethnic collective actions / Pyong Gap Min -- A wedge between black and white: Korean Americans and minority -- Race relations in twenty-first-century America / Chinbo Chong and Jane Yunhee Junn -- Koreatown as political capital / Soo Mee Kim.