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The Intimate University – Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation

Autor Nancy Abelmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 noi 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 to realize the liberal ideals of the modern American university, in which individuals can exit their comfort zones to realize their full potential regardless of race, nation, or religion. However, these ideals are compromised by their experiences of racial segregation and stereotypes, including images of instrumental striving that set Asian Americans apart. In "The Intimate University," Nancy Abelmann explores the tensions between liberal ideals and the particularities of race, family, and community in the contemporary university. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research with Korean American students at the University of Illinois and closely following multiple generations of a single extended Korean American family in the Chicago metropolitan area, Abelmann investigates the complexity of racial politics at the American university today. Racially hyper-visible and invisible, Korean American students face particular challenges as they try to realize their college dreams against the subtle, day-to-day workings of race. They frequently encounter the accusation of racial self-segregation--a charge accentuated by the fact that many attend the same Evangelical Protestant church--even as they express the desire to distinguish themselves from their families and other Korean Americans. Abelmann concludes by examining the current state of the university, reflecting on how better to achieve the university's liberal ideals despite its paradoxical celebration of diversity and relative silence on race.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822346159
ISBN-10: 082234615X
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part I: The Landscape
1. Here and There in Chicagoland Korean America 23
2. The Evangelical Challenge to College and Family 43
3. Shattered Liberal Dreams 66
Part II: Family
4. An (Anti-)Asian American Pre-med 87
5. Family versus Alma Mater 106
6. Intimate Traces 123
7. It's a Girl Thing 143
Conclusion 158
Notes 169
Bibliography 183
Index 195

Recenzii

“Nancy Abelmann’s unmatched gifts—a fierce intelligence, a hand that writes like the angels, and an empathetic sensibility uncommon in her field—are put to marvelous use in The Intimate University. This book is both a brilliant achievement and a gift to everyone struggling to understand the kind of world birthed after three decades of unprecedented global migration. While the subjects here are Korean American university students in the Midwest, the lessons we are taught are transcendent. I am ordering an extra copy today to send to President Barack Obama.” —Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Ross University Professor and Co-Director of Immigration Studies, New York University“The Intimate University tells an emotionally charged story of Korean American life on and off the campus of a large public research university in the American Midwest. It dispels the myths and stereotypes about Asian Americans through the different voices of college students, their parents and relatives, and with the author’s nuanced analysis and culturally sensitive interpretation.”—Min Zhou, author of Contemporary Chinese America“Nancy Abelmann brings to light the oft-hidden maneuverings that Asian Americans have to perform in schools as students of color and, at the same time, students whose color ‘does not count’ by virtue of their alleged overrepresentation or overachievement. The Intimate University is an incisive and provocative account of university schooling as a site for navigating the intricacies and contradictions of race, immigration, community formation, and identity.”—Rick Bonus, author of Locating Filipino Americans“Nancy Abelmann’s stunning portrait of Korean American university life will cause us to rethink our understanding of multiculturalism and diversity in the academy. This valuable and sobering account of one minority group’s experience also speaks more broadly to the intersection of race, religion, and identity, revealing the paradoxical notions on which American diversity is based. Don’t miss this book!”—Cathy Small, aka Rebekah Nathan, author of My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student

Notă biografică

Nancy Abelmann is the Harry E. Preble Professor of Anthropology and Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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"Nancy Abelmann's stunning portrait of Korean American university life will cause us to rethink our understanding of multiculturalism and diversity in the academy. This valuable and sobering account of one minority group's experience also speaks more broadly to the intersection of race, religion, and identity, revealing the paradoxical notions on which American diversity is based. Don't miss this book!"--Cathy Small, aka Rebekah Nathan, author of "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student"

Descriere

This study of Korean American college students examines the subtleties of racial segregation in an environment that encourages diversity and multiculturalism