Younger-Generation Korean Experiences in the United States

Pyong Gap Min is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He also serves as director of the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College.Thomas Chung is a writer and editor for the Research Center for Korean Community at Queens College. He is also a PhD student at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

• Part 1: Introduction - Pyong Gap Min and Thomas ChungPart 2: The Earlier Cohort-1Authenticity Dilemma among Pre-1965 Native-Born Koreans - Linda ParkPart 3: The Earlier Cohort-2 My Trek - Rose KimA Handicapped Korean in America - Alex JeongReflections on a Korean-American Journey - Ruth ChungPart 4: The Later Cohort, Group1 Growing Up Korean American: Navigating a Complex Search for Belonging - Brenda ChungHow to Be a Korean - Sun ParkToo American to Be Korean, Too Korean to Be American: A Second-Generation Outsider’s Account - Thomas ChungThe Way I See It - Bora LeePart 5: The Later Cohort, Group 2Miyeok Guk for the Korean Soul - Helene K. LeeAnyone Ever Tell You that You Look Like…? - Dave HahnFamily Matters: Emerging Adulthood and the Evolution of My Ethno-Racial Identity - Sung S. ParkPart 6: The Later Cohort, Group 3 The Outlier - Katherine Yungmee Kim?????? (Halmuhnee Ahn-Nyung?) - Alexandra NohWhat it Means to Be Korean - Hyein LeePart 7: Comments Chapter - Pyong Gap Min and Thomas Chung

These narratives relate personal recollections about the quest for ethnic identity and belonging, and are full of insights gained from the struggles, frustrations, hopes, and successes throughout the subjects’ life experiences. Readers, especially Korean American readers but also those of any background, will find the two books [this book and Korean Americans Who Have Empowered the Korean-American Community] in equal measures thought-provoking and touching as they empathize with the various narrators from their own perspectives.