Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots
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Book Overview
No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0674077059
ISBN13:9780674077058
Release Date:September 1997
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Customer Reviews
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Great research tool, pleasure reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I first read this book as part of research for a paper, but I would recommend it to those who are looking to gain more information about what really happened in the 92 LA riots, from the perspective that was neglected at the time.
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