Blue Dreams

Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots

Nancy Abelmann

John Lie

  • A Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist, Category of Current Interest

Preface

The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story

Reckoning via the Riots

Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility

Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles

Korean American Entrepreneurship

American Ideologies on Trial

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

  • Cover: Blue Dreams

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

John Lie is Class of 1959 Professor and Dean of International and Area Studies at University of California, Berkeley.