商品簡介
Adding to the significant and growing body of work in immigration studies, Park (ethnic studies and urban studies and planning, U. of California, San Diego) describes the experiences and attitudes of Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants. She finds that many construct their identities and seek legitimacy in American culture by becoming the most conspicuous of consumers. Park examines a number of issues that apply, including the nature of adaptation, the attainment of full citizenship status, the primacy of consumption as an indicator of "Americanism" and of social relationships, and the ways in which second-generation Korean Americans and Chinese Americans perceive themselves in terms of their families, their communities, and their place in what often appears to be a society that thinks of itself as diverse but presents itself as homogeneous. Annotation c2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of California, San Diego. She is co-author of The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-tech Global Economy (2002).