Korean immigrants to the United States establish their own small businesses at a rate exceeding that of immigrants from any other nation, with more than one third of all Korean immigrant adults involved in small businesses. Kyeyoung Park examines this phenomenon in Queens, New York, tracing its historical bases and exploring the transformation of Korean cultural identity prompted by participation in an enterprise. Park documents the ways in which Korean immigrants use entrepreneurship to improve the quality of their lives, focusing on their concerns and anxieties, as well as their joys. The concept of "anjong" is crucial to the lives of first-generation Korean Americans in Queens, Park explains. The word may be translated as "establishment," "stability," or "security," and it identifies a particular concept of success through which Koreans make sense of the American ideology of opportunity. What they seek is not great wealth or social position but rather the creation of their own small businesses as a way of realizing the American dream. The pursuit of "anjong" is important enough to justify changes in gender and kinship relations, resulting in the rise of a Korean American women-centered and sister-initiated kinship structure. Commitment to the concept has also inspired a different understanding of class, ethnicity, and race, and stimulated new religious ideas and practices.
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Korean immigrants today are constructing a new American identity in the complex ethnic and racial mosaic of New York City. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Korean American, Latin American, Los Angeles, African American, Jackson Heights, South Korea, Long Island, New Jersey, Korean Christians, Korean Produce Retailers Association, Community Board, Hunts Point, Korea Times, South America, Kim Sung Soo, Forest Hills, Mayor Koch, Queens Korean, Puerto Rican, Queens Festival, The Gravitation, Bureau of the Census, City Hall, Holy Ghost New!
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Korean immigrants today are constructing a new American identity in the complex ethnic and racial mosaic of New York City. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Korean American, Latin American, Los Angeles, African American, Jackson Heights, South Korea, Long Island, New Jersey, Korean Christians, Korean Produce Retailers Association, Community Board, Hunts Point, Korea Times, South America, Kim Sung Soo, Forest Hills, Mayor Koch, Queens Korean, Puerto Rican, Queens Festival, The Gravitation, Bureau of the Census, City Hall, Holy Ghost New!
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- Korean Americans (Cultures of America) by Lauren Lee on 4 pages
- New Immigrants in New York by Nancy Foner in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Religion and Ritual in Korean Society (Korea Research Monograph) by Laurel Kendall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Protestant Ethic And the Spirit of Capitalism by Gilbert Geis on page 197, and Back Matter
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Economy Editions) by Max Weber on page 197, and Back Matter
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- Manifest Destinies: Americanizing Immigrants and Internationalizing Americans by David W. Haines on page 161, and page 164
- Hispanas De Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) by Milagros Ricourt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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