• Not only will he have one of the highest concept tasting menus in Los Angeles, right in the heart of Hotel Normandie in Koreatown, but he'll be using the majority of the produce straight from his garden in Long Beach. (eater.com)
  • LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Emanuel Hahn grew up all over the world - Cambodia, Singapore, New York - but the Los Angeles neighborhood of Koreatown is special to the photographer and director. (abc7.com)
  • Some of note include the African American Firefighter Museum , the Chinese American Museum , the El Pueblo de Los Angeles (considered the birthplace of Los Angeles), the Japanese American National Museum , the Museum of Social Justice , the Skid Row History Museum & Archive , and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . (sssp1.org)
  • A few miles south of Downtown Los Angeles, you will find the California African American Museum . (sssp1.org)
  • After store owner Soon Ja Du murdered 15-year-old Latasha Harlins in 1991, the Korean community tried to make sense of their position in Los Angeles. (lataco.com)
  • The shock eventually shattered into guilt and anger when mainstream media began to implicate Los Angeles Koreans in the city's unrest. (lataco.com)
  • I remember the footage of Koreatown going up in flames," recounted Kim, a professor at Cal State Los Angeles. (lataco.com)
  • and David Kim, running for California's 34th District, which includes Los Angeles' Koreatown. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • For a more detailed exploration of the topic, consider Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the "American Dream" by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee. (libraryjournal.com)
  • Here in Los Angeles, Korean American leaders are marking 30 years since the Los Angeles race riots. (mainepublic.org)
  • The University of South Los Angeles is located in the Korea Town section of LA and has a strong focus on Korean/Korean American students. (rationalwiki.org)
  • I am a Korean American born and raised in Koreatown, Los Angeles. (nakasec.org)
  • Yoo, 43, a Los Angeles Unified School District alum, has been a strong advocate for both juveniles and the Koreatown community for many years. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • KYCC (Koreatown Youth and Community Center) was established in 1975 to support a growing population of at-risk youth in Los Angeles. (kyccla.org)
  • Koreatown Youth & Community Center, an organization serving the evolving needs of the Korean American population in the greater Los Angeles area as well as the multiethnic Koreatown community. (superherohype.com)
  • Conversely, Sung's analysis of Korean American and Koreatown native street artist David Choe's 2010 self-titled book of selected artwork, which opens on his teenage account of his decisive experience of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, puts forward an opposed assimilative trajectory, one that is not "vertical" like Chua's but which "implies a horizontal [cross-racial] affinity", as Sung puts it, drawing from Vijay Prashad (96). (openedition.org)
  • At its core, Troublemaker is a deeply moving story of redemption between a 12-year-old Korean American rebellious son and his strict storeowner father, set against the prescient backdrop of a riveting and suspenseful journey into the heart of 1992 Los Angeles' Koreatown on the first night of what would become one of our country's most iconic movements of civil unrest. (flyleafbooks.com)
  • Set in the darkest corners of Los Angeles' Koreatown, director Justin Chon's third feature film is a moving, melancholic drama following Kasie, a 23-year old first-generation Korean American woman, as she fights to care for her dying father. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • Looking for cheap and affordable parking in Koreatown, Los Angeles? (onairparking.com)
  • The Wiltern is an amazing old piece of Los Angeles architecture that you'll not want to miss if you're in Koreatown. (onairparking.com)
  • She will talk your ear off about Korean coffee culture and the dreadful effects of Los Angeles' palm tree fetishism. (lataco.com)
  • Chinatown in Honolulu and New York City, the International District in Seattle, Nihonmachi and Chinatown in San Francisco, Little Tokyo in Los Angeles: all bear witness to the determination of Asian Americans to create communities which help us move from a vital heritage to a vision of a better society. (usc.edu)
  • A film centers around a group of dysfunctional yet lovable man-children trying to carve out a piece of the American pie, set in the colorful, haunting din of Los Angeles. (nbcnews.com)
  • "Ktown Cowboys" is set in the eponymous Koreatown, a huge, sprawling Korean community set smack in the middle of Los Angeles. (nbcnews.com)
  • Nearly two decades ago, Koreatown witnessed some of the most violent spasms of the Los Angeles riots. (nbcnews.com)
  • Along Havana Street, the city's main thoroughfare, you'll find restaurants that reflect the Korean community in Aurora. (matadornetwork.com)
  • For all your meat-centric dining needs, we've rounded up the city's best Korean barbecue restaurants for any and all occasions, including both casual and upscale. (timeout.com)
  • DALLAS (AP) - Dallas' police chief said Friday that a shooting that injured three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown might have been a hate crime as he announced that it could be connected to two other shootings at businesses run by Asian Americans. (ktar.com)
  • Notably, Chicano Park, located in the city's Mexican-American Barrio Logan, contains the nation's largest collection of outdoor murals. (altalang.com)
  • California history includes massacres, riots, expulsions and other violent actions that were directed at Chinese-American communities during the mid and late 19th century. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Perhaps the most iconic figure synonymous with the L.A. riots is Rodney King, the African-American motorist who engaged CHP officers in an eight-mile pursuit on the Foothill Freeway on the eve of March 3, 1991. (csun.edu)
  • A heartfelt, insightful book exploring the bond between father and son who deepen their relationship while navigating social justice, police bias, Korean American identity, and the trauma of the L.A. riots. (flyleafbooks.com)
  • John Cho's highly personal Korean American perspective of the LA Riots combine harsh realities, racial tension, and ultimately hope. (flyleafbooks.com)
  • The sibling story that then unfolds in Ms. Purple is a continuation of sorts for Chon, whose 2017 film Gook explored the relationship between two Korean American brothers on the first day of the 1992 Rodney King riots. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • Before sniffling though Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly-the tragic 1904 version of woman-waits-by-the-phone-we stopped in Manhattan's Koreatown for a bowl of jap chae (glass noodles with vegetables). (oprah.com)
  • There is something about Manhattan's Koreatown that you cannot beat. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • As a resident of LA's Koreatown for nearly three years, I'm lucky to live in an area where being Korean feels ordinary or, sometimes, even fun. (thrillist.com)
  • The same month King was beaten, a Korean American shopkeeper in South LA named Soon Ja Du had accused 15-year-old Black girl Latasha Harlins of theft and fatally shot her in the back of the head. (mainepublic.org)
  • Kim said Koreatown and Korean businesses faced the brunt of destruction, about $350 million in damages, largely due to the Latasha Harlins shooting that occurred a year prior. (csun.edu)
  • Latasha Harlins was a 15-year-old African-American girl who was falsely accused of theft by a Korean liquor store owner. (csun.edu)
  • In the wake of the acquittal of the police officers filmed beating Rodney King, as well as the shooting of a young black teen, Latasha Harlins by a Korean store owner, the country is at the precipice of confronting its racist past and present. (flyleafbooks.com)
  • He gathered their stories for his new book 'Koreatown Dreaming. (abc7.com)
  • Hong heads up Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong in Manhattan, part of the Korean barbeque chain and has co-authored the cookbook and travelogue Koreatown -A Cookbook [Clarkson Potter, 2016]. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • Whatever doesn't deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken, to tackle another season of American Idol. (grantland.com)
  • Today Koreatown is a calmer, if still dramatic, neighborhood home to countless Korean BBQ spots, bars, and various small businesses. (nbcnews.com)
  • Photographer Emanuel Hahn's keen eye and thoughtful curiosity led him to meet a generation of Korean immigrants whose stories have largely gone untold. (abc7.com)
  • Established by Korean immigrants as the first Korean American bank in 1982, Hanmi Bank's founding principles were to help guide and support fellow Korean American immigrants in fulfilling their dreams. (kyccla.org)
  • Food writers and chefs I meet tell me that this enclave, developed in the 80s after the influx of Korean immigrants between the 60s and 70s, and the trickle thereafter, is teeny when compared to the expanse of Los Angeles's Koreatown. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • With significantly large populations of Asian and Latin American immigrants, San Francisco has become a truly multilingual city. (altalang.com)
  • Koreatown (also referred to as Little Seoul and the Korean Business District on nearby street signage) is on Garden Grove Boulevard between Beach Boulevard (Route 39) and Brookhurst Street in Garden Grove, Orange County, California. (wikipedia.org)
  • Anh Chang Ho and others work in an orange orchard in citrus-rich Riverside, California, site of the first Koreatown in the United States. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • In the early 20th century, Korean Americans flocked to Pachappa Camp in citrus-rich Riverside, California, to gather, live and work together, and keep the Korean identity alive. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • The discovery of gold on the California lands led to greater migration of Anglo-Americans to the West Coast. (sssp1.org)
  • In his campaign for re-election in 1852, California Governor John Bigler urged fellow citizens to 'check this tide of Asiatic immigration,' claiming that the Chinese were incapable of becoming American. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Additionally, there are Korean American candidates running in municipal races as Republicans, Democrats and in non-partisan races in cities in the states of Washington, California, Florida, New York and New Jersey. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • She moved to Northern California after identifying as a "Korean-American queer" on her blog and elsewhere. (koreadailyus.com)
  • The most significant of them was the cooperative association Gongnip Hyeophoe , which laid foundations for the development of the Korean National Association (KNA)-a political organization that represented the interest of Koreans in the United States, Russia, and Manchuria. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • Five Korean American congressional candidates, the most in the country's history in one election, saw each other's faces with some delight on Zoom in a recent free public session sponsored by a Korean American political advocacy organization. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • Today, KYCC is the leading multiservice organization in Koreatown, supporting children and their families in the areas of education, health, housing, and finances. (kyccla.org)
  • As we celebrate Financial Literacy Month in April, Hanmi Bank (Chief Executive Officer and President, Bonnie Lee) and Koreatown Youth and Community Center (Chief Executive Director, Johng Ho Song) have teamed up to support Kindergarten to 12 th grade students with financial literacy. (kyccla.org)
  • Some even say they prefer the Korean diners, nail salons and karaoke bars in Flushing, Queens. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • We could do with one or two less angst-filled slow-motion actions shots ala the cheesy music videos you might see at any Korean karaoke bar - but the film is grounded in an emotional reality so palpable that the sometimes heavy-handed visual metaphors throughout are easy to forgive. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • As a Korean-American, I've seen my fair share of Beatles karaoke, specifically "Yesterday," which is such a popular standard in nostalgic, weepy Korea that for a while in the early '90s, every album that was released by the then-nascent Korean music industry had to feature a cover of "Yesterday. (grantland.com)
  • So if anyone can judge Beatles karaoke, it's me (and maybe Emily, who seems to spend more time than is really healthy in karaoke bars in Koreatown). (grantland.com)
  • Koreans in North America : their twenty-first century experiences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Recommended for anyone interested in the experiences of Korean Americans. (libraryjournal.com)
  • Though most of our favorite places are in Koreatown, one of the densest dining neighborhoods in the city with everything from South Asian and Korean cuisine to old-school steakhouses , we've also included a few key spots outside of the area that offer best-in-class grilling experiences with attentive customer service (not always a given in Koreatown) and other noteworthy bells and whistles. (timeout.com)
  • Notable is the range of Korean-American experiences represented: there's the struggling comedian, the corporate warrior under investigation by the FBI, the liquor store owner's son, and the aggro barfly. (nbcnews.com)
  • Here in the US, absent federal days off, Koreans and Korean Americans fit their celebrations in however they can: feasting on delicious food, making offerings to ancestors, spending time with extended family, and generously exchanging gifts, especially expensive fruits, all to welcome a new and hopefully prosperous year. (thrillist.com)
  • 3 The first section, entitled "Stars and Celebrities", debunks the common belief that Asian American stars have been absent in the U.S. media landscape. (openedition.org)
  • They're the places where I had especially meaningful aha moments, where I thought, "Of course New Mexican cuisine should be lauded," or "Absolutely this is the one Korean barbecue restaurant where everyone should eat," or "It's crazy how perfectly these Pakistani-Texan dishes summarize the heart of Houston dining. (eater.com)
  • While plenty of Angelenos are still discovering Koreatown's hidden gems , there's no denying that Korean barbecue is a known dinnertime entity all over the city. (timeout.com)
  • In our humble opinion, the best place to take a group of hungry out-of-towners-at least, if they eat red meat-is a Korean barbecue joint. (timeout.com)
  • While Angelenos remain divided on their favorite everyday Korean barbecue joint, Park's seems to be the one unifying constant for special occasions. (timeout.com)
  • If you love Korean barbecue, then you'll most definitely be at home in Koreatown as these restaurants abound on almost every corner. (onairparking.com)
  • Located in the heart of K town, there's a lot of korean food nearby! (agoda.com)
  • The Line Hotel is conveniently located in the heart of Koreatown, offering a wide variety of things to do. (agoda.com)
  • At H-Mart, still sparkly and new, shelves are stocked with all the buckets of kimchi your heart could desire, Korean soft drinks, fresh tofu, teas, crates of pristine Asian vegetables, Korean snacks and ready-made food like gimbap (Korean rolls fashioned after Japanese sushi) and juk, a slow-cooked rice porridge, also made from beans or sesame. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • He said the salon is in the heart of Koreatown, which is in a part of the city that was transformed in the 1980s from an industrial area to a thriving district with shopping, dining, markets, medical offices and salons. (ktar.com)
  • During its short stretch of existence, this self-governed community made for and by Korean Americans became a mecca for the Korean independence movement and a bulwark against anti-Asian racism in America. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • As more Korean and Asian Americans continue to self-educate and rely less on white-centered media, they develop personal ways of participating in the fight against anti-Black racism. (lataco.com)
  • With AAJIL, Kim conducts racial justice training sessions to teach the history of the Asian American identity, the model minority myth, institutional racism, and anti-Blackness in white supremacy. (lataco.com)
  • Police searched Thursday for a man who opened fire inside the hair salon in Dallas' Koreatown area, wounding three people. (ktar.com)
  • John Jun, a founding member of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Korean American Coalition, said he'd hoped that the shooting at the salon was an isolated incident. (ktar.com)
  • Although Dallas possesses a large Latin American population speaking both Spanish and English, the city also has a significant Korean American presence and a large Koreatown in the northwest section of the city. (altalang.com)
  • As a Korean-American person, I think of Koreatown as a spiritual home for the Korean diaspora,' said Hahn. (abc7.com)
  • Hahn is donating part of the proceeds from book sales to two nonprofit organizations serving the Koreatown community. (abc7.com)
  • Sure to delight people who grew up with American Girl dolls, but it may be too niche for some readers. (libraryjournal.com)
  • We would beg for them every Sunday after church when we'd visit the Korean grocery store," Kim who grew up in Decatur, Illinois says. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • John is also a former 7th-grade English teacher who grew up as a Korean immigrant kid in Texas and East L.A. (among many other places). (flyleafbooks.com)
  • The company has been hungrily expanding into new projects all year, from spearheading the revival of cult-favorite Japanese hot pot restaurant Hakata Tonton last spring, to opening upscale Korean-American spot Little Mad with chef Sol Han, a Le Coucou alum, over the summer. (eater.com)
  • For other Korean Angelenos, being in the presence of activists with a proven history of addressing racial, class, and gender barriers, has helped them stoke the present Black liberation movement in tangible ways. (lataco.com)
  • As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month this May, it's important to consider why examining the history of anti-Chinese violence is important to people outside the AAPI communities. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • This is the latest attack in a horrifying surge in violence, blame, and xenophobia against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across the nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. (lafla.org)
  • Last year, Kim launched the Asian American Justice + Innovative Lab to reinvigorate the Asian American and Pacific Islander history that has been left out of the U.S. education system. (lataco.com)
  • The Korean response to today's Black Lives Matter movement is rooted in deep personal education. (lataco.com)
  • HUANG: For today's Korean American leaders, the events of '92 established new priorities like creating greater unity, says New Jersey Congressman Andy Kim. (mainepublic.org)
  • Along with Black Americans and Native Americans, Chinese were barred from testifying against whites in California's courts. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Rodney King , he saw first-hand how the Korean-American community rallied to protect itself, and he feels that's not happening today. (scmp.com)
  • Since 2012, Aurora's city website has maintained a dining guide called YUM AURORA to chronicle restaurants by cuisine, with dedicated sections for African, South American, Middle Eastern, and others. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Koreatown in Manhattan may be a long way from Seoul, but its restaurants serve up delectable national dishes, from bibimbap to bulgogi. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • The steeply vertical expanse of Koreatown in Manhattan, fondly nicknamed K-Town, crams an intense scrapbook of neon signage, supermarkets, general stores, beauty parlours and restaurants along 32nd Street and its immediate surrounds. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • In an interview with The World's 50 Best Restaurants , chef Jungsik Yim who runs his successful and eponymous Jungsik restaurants in both Seoul and Manhattan (a two-star Michelin establishment), says: "It's not just people's understanding of Korean food that has changed over the past five years, but people's understanding of Korean culture as a whole. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • The opening marks the first time that the group, which has historically focused on Korean and Japanese restaurants, has set its sights on Thai fare. (eater.com)
  • Other recent violent acts have included harassment and assaults on elderly Asian Americans and the death of Vicha Ratanapakdee, an 84-year-old man out on his daily walk in San Francisco. (lafla.org)
  • Kim was left to understand her race in America and navigate the violent images alone. (lataco.com)
  • He's the host of K-Town, a YouTube series covering Korean food in America, and has been featured in Netflix's Street Food show. (eater.com)
  • Jeon is both an everyday and a celebratory food in Korean culture. (thrillist.com)
  • Korean food is the cuisine they're keen to showcase this year, the food world's darling that is now an active part of the diner's lexicon from London to Ljubljana. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • Once administered in titrated doses, watered down for Western palates, Korean food in the U.S is considered by many to be as authentic as the motherland's fare. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • While I contemplate eating finer, more refined versions of the foods I've grown to love and crave, I hit K-Town first with Paste magazine food editor, Korean American Dakota Kim, to stockpile on the home-style classics. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • food, and the wider American culture that surrounded those tiny barrios. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • Like Kim and chef Esther Choi (who opened mokbar a Korean ramen bar in Chelsea Market), Hong says he ate American food outside and just Korean food like kimchi stew and soups made with oxtail and chicken at home. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • When Pachappa was founded, Korean Americans found themselves suddenly a people without a country. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • It was a bewildering question for Koreans who did not yet know that the "model minority" myth exists to uphold oppressive structures that deny the struggle of all people of color. (lataco.com)
  • As a 13 year old who had no part in it, I remember feeling such shame because I was Korean, and Koreans were being accused of hating Black people. (lataco.com)
  • He describes it as Way of the Tiger, a nod to his stage name, and also to his cultural heritage, as the Korean peninsula and the Korean people are often associated with the animal. (scmp.com)
  • That's something you do when you don't realize that the song you're singing has a history and that millions of people - mostly all the old people watching American Idol - have a history with it. (grantland.com)
  • However, after 35 years of Japanese colonial rule, it is regrettable that 70 years after the Japanese imperialism has changed the history of the great Tangun into myth by using colonial historians to shorten the history of Korean people to Japanese history. (fuckedgaijin.com)
  • Born to a white father and a Korean mother who served in the U.S. Army in South Korea, Milbern was known as a human rights activist who worked to advance the rights of people with disabilities and other marginalized groups from the time she was a teenager. (koreadailyus.com)
  • Korean-run businesses were disproportionately affected during the six days of civil unrest. (mainepublic.org)
  • They don't know about 40 to 50% of the property damage during the LA uprising being to Korean businesses. (mainepublic.org)
  • Authorities do not yet know why the man shot the three female victims Wednesday afternoon at Hair World Salon, which is in a shopping center with many businesses owned by Korean Americans. (ktar.com)
  • Now we're a little more concerned because it seems like they are targeting for sure Asian Americans and most likely Korean American businesses in the area," Jun said. (ktar.com)
  • Last year, six women of Asian descent were among the eight killed in a shooting at massage businesses in and near Atlanta, heightening anger and fear among Asian Americans. (ktar.com)
  • The former executive director of the Korean American Coalition is driven by a combination of faith and facts, her guiding compass to a seat on the City Council. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Ktown for Black Lives' points to the growing momentum among L.A.-based Korean and Asian American organizers standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and calling for Black liberation. (lataco.com)
  • HUANG: One of the organizers, Connie Chung Joe, is with the group Asian Americans Advancing Justice. (mainepublic.org)
  • This well-researched title is an important chronicle of the treatment of Black Americans and their mental health during the Jim Crow era. (libraryjournal.com)
  • In an ever-more-crowded genre, pitmaster Esaul Ramos and fellow San Antonian Joe Melig transcend the Texas smoked-meats melee by also serving a frictionless combination of dishes that express their Mexican-American heritage. (eater.com)
  • In the spirit of the pocho , Mexican-American style, its drizzled liberally over the shredded cheese, lettuce, and radish before you go in for the first crunch. (lataco.com)
  • There are the classics that time blessedly forgot, where simplicity rules and all you need is a well-seasoned flat-top and a slice of American cheese, and there are the blends infused with bone marrow. (timeout.com)
  • In Korea, Seollal is a national holiday lasting three days, with most Koreans given time off work so that they can gather with family. (thrillist.com)
  • The Korean BBQ options in L.A. are endless-so we rounded up the very best for the next time you're craving bulgogi, galbi and all things red meat. (timeout.com)
  • This is the first time a Korean American has been featured on U.S. currency. (koreadailyus.com)
  • This included an assault that left a 76-year-old Asian American grandmother with two black eyes, the death of a 75-year-old man after a robbery in Oakland, and the June 2021 stabbing of a 94-year-old San Francisco woman . (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • a descendant of slaves, and a daughter of Korea, and an American woman. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • If elected, Strickland would be the first Korean American woman to be elected to Congress, and the first African American to represent the state of Washington at the federal level. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • Lee argues that even as Chua champions Chinese American motherhood, she actually perpetuates the historical socio-cultural and political erasure of Chinese and Asian subjects who fail to follow the model minority script for want of the very privileges that Chua enjoys as a Yale law professor, the wife of fellow professor and writer Jed Rubenfeld, and an attractive, well-groomed woman to boot. (openedition.org)
  • The Korean American woman will be featured on the reverse of the "Quarter" coin in 2025. (koreadailyus.com)
  • 1 Global Asian American Popular Cultures expands the discussion initiated in the editors' first volume, East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture , published a decade earlier. (openedition.org)
  • Clearly, anti-Asian American hate has not abated in the U.S. since the ratification of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the only federal act targeting a specific nationality by race. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • John Lee, a Korean American city councilman who currently represents a district in the San Fernando Valley, shares a common refrain about the Asian American experience, that it is to "perpetually feel like an outsider. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • If she wins, she would be the second Asian American to ever win a seat on the City Council. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Exploring an impressively wide range of media forms and privileging a stimulating interdisciplinary critical approach, the twenty-two essays collected here thoughtfully address questions that remain pivotal to Asian American cultural studies: "How do we engage with culture? (openedition.org)
  • If indeed the volume does move, quite unsurprisingly, from an individual/star-centered approach to Asian Americans' negotiations of (self-)imposed representational scripts in U.S. cultural life to a broader, community-oriented one and the ultimate claim of the hybrid(ized), transnational origins of Asian American popular culture(s), its loose partitioning does not so much map a rhetorical trajectory than sketch permeable subforums. (openedition.org)
  • More than ever, the critical approach to Asian American popular culture -s should be intersectional, dialogical, and plural , as is implied in the title shift from the editors' first volume to the one under review. (openedition.org)
  • It explores the rise to stardom by historical and contemporary, mainstream and underground Asian American celebrity icons in various cultural fields. (openedition.org)
  • This newest endeavor is just as ambitious as Gook in its portrayal of the Asian American family outside of the "model minority" stereotype , and is more focused, if not always balanced. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • Koreatown became a war-zone, with no police coming to help. (historynewsnetwork.org)
  • Amid this backdrop, Kim said crime was also escalating in Koreatown and other poorer communities because police gave more attention to wealthy "white" neighborhoods including Westwood and Beverly Hills. (csun.edu)
  • USC professor Edward T. Chang and researcher Carol K. Park spotlight the forgotten history of Pachappa Camp where the bustling community lived in the early 1900s, and which served as a gathering place for Korean Americans fighting for nationhood abroad. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • An intriguing addition to the archaeological history of the American Southwest. (libraryjournal.com)
  • Connie Chung Joe says it's a history many younger Korean Americans are missing. (mainepublic.org)
  • Each of these women contributed to American history in their own unique way and made a difference in the society we now live in. (koreadailyus.com)
  • The surest way to fall in love with a culture's traditions is to share in their holidays, so this year I set out to make the most of my Seollal celebrations, learning which dishes are most significant to the holiday and where to find their best versions in Koreatown. (thrillist.com)
  • When Japan's Prince Ito was assassinated at the hands of Korean nationalist Chung-kun Ahn, camp residents collected funds for Ahn's defense and held nightly meetings full of speeches, promises, and stories of past heroics to express their support. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • Each person's stories are as diverse as their crafts and are weaved together with a common thread: their Korean roots. (abc7.com)
  • U.S. Mint Director Ventris Gibson said it is a privilege to honor women like Park Milbern and tell their stories through American Women Quarters. (koreadailyus.com)
  • Pachappa, in response, became an active site of Korean independence activities led by Dosan himself, who continued to distinguish himself as a leader of the movement that sought to unify overseas Koreans to preserve their national identity and community. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • The growing resistance to corporate/government expropriation of communities - disguised as redevelopment - is symbolic of Asian America in movement. (usc.edu)
  • They don't know what happened between the Korean and Black communities. (mainepublic.org)
  • In addition to black versus white animosity caused by the King incident, there was also tension between the African-American and Korean communities, said Taehyun Kim, CSUN professor of journalism. (csun.edu)
  • Near the end of the Joseon Dynasty, the Korean government began promoting the consumption of cattle, and eating galbi jjim became more widespread. (thrillist.com)
  • One of the younger establishments on this list, Sun Nong Dan has already earned a reputation among Korean cuisine lovers for their melt-in-your-mouth galbi jjim, which is meticulously simmered in herbs and marinade. (thrillist.com)
  • They built a community hall, held Korean language and culture classes, and the Calvary Presbyterian Church, which took an interest in the diaspora, provided English classes. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • Plans had circulated a few years ago for an official Koreatown designation along Havana Street, but those were scrapped in order to prevent the image that the city was highlighting one culture over another. (matadornetwork.com)
  • The Hallyu, known as The Korean Wave, a term coined by Chinese media that refers to the rise and spread of Korean pop culture, started way back in the 90s. (foodandthefabulous.com)
  • The city has some of the nation's largest cultural enclaves including Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Ethiopia, Tehrangeles, and Thai Town. (altalang.com)
  • Ultimately, Kim's hope is that her curriculum will encourage Asian Americans to share and heal from the rarely told histories about themselves. (lataco.com)
  • The KAPA website is using national maps to indicate national, state and municipal races where Korean American candidates are in the running. (koreanquarterly.org)
  • Many Korean Americans will spend the holiday working, especially those who work in the restaurant industry and are hoping to fulfill large, holiday orders. (thrillist.com)
  • Koreatown has excellent shopping and large malls for your perfect shopping experience. (onairparking.com)
  • He owned one of the first rice cake stores that open in Koreatown about 30 years ago. (abc7.com)
  • The Coddling of the American Mind is a title made up by an editor at The Atlantic for an article I wrote with Greg on how college students seemed to be embracing ways of thinking that were cognitive distortions. (morningbrew.com)
  • How do Asian Americans continue to influence the popular, and what are the limits and distinctions between mainstream and the margins? (openedition.org)
  • 8 days of only drinking rainwater, Korean American shares her rescue. (koreadailyus.com)
  • Tiffany Chu stars as Kasie in Ms. Purple , an indie drama about a Korean American family from director Justin Chon. (iowapublicradio.org)
  • The Korean population in Orange County more than doubled between 1990 and 2010. (wikipedia.org)
  • The couple eventually settled in Riverside, enticed by its warm climate and job opportunities- not to mention its burgeoning Korean population. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • The greater LA area is home to the largest Korean population outside of Korea, so, for me, living here feels like the next best thing to moving across the world. (thrillist.com)
  • Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ), video-calling from an outdoor perch in Washington, DC with the Capitol outline in the background, was the only incumbent in the webinar sponsored by Korean Americans for Political Action (KAPA). (koreanquarterly.org)
  • ANDY KIM: What happened wasn't just about Korean Americans in LA. It affected all of us around the country. (mainepublic.org)
  • In 1902, the first married Korean couple to come to the United States, Dosan Ahn Chang Ho and Heyryon Lee, also known as Helen Lee Ahn, arrived in San Francisco. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • KNA members agreed on 21 articles of governance for Koreans, including guidelines on social practices, internal policing mechanisms, and the establishment of committees that helped organize and regulate Koreans on everything from the way they dressed, to curfew times. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • Also featured are various Korean-American cultural nuances, ranging from "booking" (a dance club practice with matchmaking undertones) to social titles that are at once respectful and flirtatious. (nbcnews.com)
  • The reality show K-Town found some traction following MTV's Jersey Shore wave, and was a more unapologetic take on the Koreatown party scene and its denizens. (nbcnews.com)
  • JOSIE HUANG, BYLINE: If you passed through Koreatown on Friday night, you'd think, outdoor rap concert. (mainepublic.org)
  • A Korean-American elementary school child who left the church--his mother remains a member--said on a Korean-language television broadcast last week that he was not allowed to sleep or go to the bathroom while the congregation was engaged in an all-night prayer preparing for the Rapture. (latimes.com)
  • Five Questions on American Idol: How About a Pleasant Night of Beatles Songs? (grantland.com)
  • Focusing on Amy Chua's fame following the publication of her memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in 2011, Lee interrogates the author's problematic contribution to the construction of Chinese American racial identity through her representation of Chinese American motherhood as she claims the advantages of Chinese-style parenting, commonly deemed as extreme, over-controlling, over Western education. (openedition.org)
  • Located in Koreatown (see more on Koreatown below), you can find the Korean American National Museum . (sssp1.org)
  • Intrigued, Edward-a Korean American studies scholar-and a team of researchers and students dug through archives of Korean newspapers and historic documents to uncover an amazing tale of survival and perseverance. (zocalopublicsquare.org)
  • However, restaurant group Hand Hospitality, best known for its nearby Koreatown hits like Her Name Is Han and recently opened Korean-American spot Little Mad, sees room to succeed in that void. (eater.com)