On my own : Korean businesses and race relations in America

In On My Own, In Jin Yoon combines an intimate fieldwork account of Korean-black relations in Chicago and Los Angeles with extensive quantitative analysis at the national level. Yoon argues that a complete understanding of the contemporary Korean American community requires systematic analyses of pa...

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Main Author: Yun, In-jin, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1997.
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505 0 |a The state of immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship in America -- The social origins of Korean immigration to the United States, 1903 to the present -- Class, family, and ethnicity in Korean immigrant entrepreneurship -- Who is my neighbor? : Korean-Black relations in Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City. 
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650 0 |a Korean American businesspeople. 
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