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"No Justice, No Peace!": The Politics Of Black-Korean Conflict, Claire Jean Kim
"No Justice, No Peace!": The Politics Of Black-Korean Conflict, Claire Jean Kim
Trotter Review
In the opening scene of the recently released film, Menace II Society, the protagonists, two young African-American men, make a routine beer run to a convenience store owned by a Korean-American couple. The merchants’ manifest suspiciousness toward them triggers an exchange of hostilities that concludes when one of the men kills and robs the couple. For audiences of all colors. this depiction of black-Korean conflict appears starkly familiar. Ranging from verbal altercations to killings, to retail boycotts and picketing campaigns, conflicts between Korean-American merchants and black customers, including African Caribbeans, have become commonplace in many major American cities over …
Korean And African-American Relations: Integrating The Symbolic With The Structural, Karen Umemoto
Korean And African-American Relations: Integrating The Symbolic With The Structural, Karen Umemoto
Trotter Review
LaTasha Harlins and Soon Ja Du: These two individuals became symbolic figures for the plight of African Americans and Koreans. One a merchant, the other a customer, their fatal confrontation has helped shape the state of relations between the Korean and African-American communities of South Central Los Angeles for some time to come. Their relationship is a metaphor for the unequal class positions of the two communities. But. why is it that these symbols take on meaning for others outside the physical boundaries of the particular geographic region or across the class boundaries within the communities they represent?