Provides information on the history of Korea and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Korean Americans.
This book answers the following questions for the student or interested reader: • Who are the Korean people? • Why did they come to the United States? • How did they adapt to their new country? • How are they received by the ...
The Immigrant Experience series celebrates our shared ethnic heritage. Each volume in the series examines a specific immigrant group's history and culture, and follows the achievements of its people up to the present.
In this book Korean Americans in Chicago celebrate these contributions with over 200 photographs that detail the various aspects of life within the community.
Examines the history of Korean immigration to the United States, discussing why Korean immigrants came, what they did when they got here, where they settled, and customs they brought with them.
Korean Americans are the fourth-largest Asian group in the US. This title focuses on this important group, its history, culture, and contributions, and includes profiles of such notables as Jay Kim, who, in 1993, became the first Korean ...
This in-depth look at one of the fastest-growing immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest provides a much-needed overview of the Korean American experience as well as moving personal anecdotes.
This is a very good book to understand what makes the Korean-Americans "tick." Particularly insightful are the ways in which Christian Kim, the author, captures general patterns for the Korean-Americans and their successes.
Surveys the immigration of Koreans to America from 1903 to the present time and identifies the contributions of individual Koreans to American life and culture.
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Elaine Howard Ecklund, Korean American Evangelicals: New Models for Civic Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006). 10. David K. Yoo and Ruth H. Chung, eds., introduction to Religion and Spirituality in Korean America (Urbana: ...