Title: Legacies of struggle
First published: 2007
Description: "Drawing on two case studies, the author identifies diverse ways in which community-based organizations negotiate their political agendas and mainstream ties within the traditional ethnic power structures. One organization promotes middle-class ethnic goals through accommodation to immigrant leaders, while the other emphasizes social justice through alliances with outside interest groups. Both cases challenge the traditional assumption that assimilation undermines ethnicity as a meaningful framework for political identity and solidarity in immigrant groups. Legacies of Struggle reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Korean Americans, Children of immigrants, Case studies, Societies, Politics and government, Ethnic identity, Community life, Intergenerational relations, Ethnic relations, Elite (Social sciences), Political activity, Power (Social sciences), United states, ethnic relations
Places: United States
LC classification: E184.K6 C53 2007