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1.5 Generation Korean Americans in Hawaii
DANICO, Mary Y., The 1.5 Generation: Becoming Korean American in Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press; Los Angeles: In Association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2004. Ⅹⅰⅴ, 221p. ISBN 0-8248-2695-7 (pa). $23.00. Index, Bib. Acid-Free.
The author, Mary Yu Danico, received her doctorate at University of Hawaii at Manoa and is an Associate Professor in the Psychology and Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She wrote co-authored Asian American Issues for Greenwood Press’s. Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Issues Series.
The book ‘The 1.5 generation, becoming Korean American in Hawaii discusses how the Korean 1.5 generation in Hawaii identifies their ethnic identity and how this perception influences their personal and social life in the local community. The term 1.5 generation is a concept that is widely spread through out the Korean immigrant Diaspora. 1.5 generation indicates the young people who were born in Korea and immigrated to the United States at an early age. Unlike the first generation of immigrant, who regard their ethnic identity primarily as Koreans and the second generation who were born and raised in the United States, the 1.5 generation identifies with both cultures and associates with both groups. Hawaii is well known for the constitution of ethnic groups where the minority ethnic group becomes more popular than the mainland. Although sharing some common points with the 1.5ers who grow up in the mainland, the environment in Hawaii appears to be more tolerant and at the same time as an American for the 1.5 generation. The author notes that it is the environmental difference that lead her to study the 1.5 generations ethnic identity and social life in Hawaii.
The author, a Korean American who grew up in an upper-middle class community California, conducted the study as both an insider being a 1.5 generation herself and also as an outsider as not being a local in Hawaii. Danico conducted to formal and informal interviews-(both as an insider (1.5 generation Korean-American) and outsider (not from Hawaii). As the author notes this study gives a better understanding of the 1.5 Korean generations by observing their families and their family relationships, social status, social life, and ethnic identity development. The book includes an index and notes to help the reader with specific terms.
Although the study occasionally compares some parts of the difference between the 1.5 generation in Hawaii and from the mainland, it might have made the study more interesting and complete, if the author had time to compare two regional groups to give a more accurate understanding of the generation. This book will be a useful material to an academic library that serves scholars and students who are studying ethnic groups and also as a great introduction for those who are interested in the subject area.
The author, Mary Yu Danico, received her doctorate at University of Hawaii at Manoa and is an Associate Professor in the Psychology and Sociology Department at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She wrote co-authored Asian American Issues for Greenwood Press’s. Contemporary U.S. Ethnic Issues Series.
The book ‘The 1.5 generation, becoming Korean American in Hawaii discusses how the Korean 1.5 generation in Hawaii identifies their ethnic identity and how this perception influences their personal and social life in the local community. The term 1.5 generation is a concept that is widely spread through out the Korean immigrant Diaspora. 1.5 generation indicates the young people who were born in Korea and immigrated to the United States at an early age. Unlike the first generation of immigrant, who regard their ethnic identity primarily as Koreans and the second generation who were born and raised in the United States, the 1.5 generation identifies with both cultures and associates with both groups. Hawaii is well known for the constitution of ethnic groups where the minority ethnic group becomes more popular than the mainland. Although sharing some common points with the 1.5ers who grow up in the mainland, the environment in Hawaii appears to be more tolerant and at the same time as an American for the 1.5 generation. The author notes that it is the environmental difference that lead her to study the 1.5 generations ethnic identity and social life in Hawaii.
The author, a Korean American who grew up in an upper-middle class community California, conducted the study as both an insider being a 1.5 generation herself and also as an outsider as not being a local in Hawaii. Danico conducted to formal and informal interviews-(both as an insider (1.5 generation Korean-American) and outsider (not from Hawaii). As the author notes this study gives a better understanding of the 1.5 Korean generations by observing their families and their family relationships, social status, social life, and ethnic identity development. The book includes an index and notes to help the reader with specific terms.
Although the study occasionally compares some parts of the difference between the 1.5 generation in Hawaii and from the mainland, it might have made the study more interesting and complete, if the author had time to compare two regional groups to give a more accurate understanding of the generation. This book will be a useful material to an academic library that serves scholars and students who are studying ethnic groups and also as a great introduction for those who are interested in the subject area.
Reviewed by Jinhe Kim, LIS student, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Review submitted in October 2009.
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