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Informationen zum Autor ANGIE Y. CHUNG is an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, in New York. She is the author of Legacies of Struggle: Conflict and Cooperation in Korean American Politics. Klappentext Offers a nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world as recalled by the people who lived them first-hand: the grown children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews, sociologist Angie Y. Chung examines how these second-generation children negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing. Zusammenfassung Offers a nuanced portrait of Asian immigrant families in a changing world as recalled by the people who lived them first-hand: the grown children of Chinese and Korean immigrants. Drawing on extensive interviews! sociologist Angie Y. Chung examines how these second-generation children negotiate the complex and conflicted feelings they have toward their family responsibilities and upbringing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements 1The Asian Immigrant Family Myth 2Education, Sacrifice, and the American Dream 3Love and Communication across the Generation Gap 4Children as Family Caregivers 5Daughters and Sons Carrying Culture 6The Racial Contradictions of Being American 7Behind the Family Portrait Appendix AAppendix BNotesIndex
