Nancy Abelmann: 2 books
The Intimate University
Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign—including the large population of Korean American students—come from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Among the campus’s largest non-white ethnicities, Korean American students arrive at college hoping...
Korean American Families in Immigrant America
How Teens and Parents Navigate Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States
Both scholarship and popular culture on Asian American immigrant families have long focused on intergenerational cultural conflict and stereotypes about “tiger mothers” and “model minority” students....