Identities of accommodation; identities of resistance
Korean American women and meaning making during and post college
Matthew James Graziano | Seton Hall University
Sumie Okazaki | New York University
Grace Chun | New York University
Sophie P. Barnes | Harvard University
To explore individual identity narratives of accommodation and resistance in relationship to dominant American social, political and cultural constructs, this paper uses the Listening Guide Method of Qualitative Inquiry (Gilligan et al., 2006) to investigate the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender and American identity during and post college among four second-generation, college educated, Korean American women. The analysis, drawing from the emergence of themes across interviews, found that participant women accommodated and/or resisted dominant American social, political, and cultural constructs in service of their individual Korean American identities narratives during and post college.
Keywords: the Listening Guide, qualitative methods, Korean American women, identity narratives
Published online: 27 September 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17018.gra
https://doi.org/10.1075/ni.17018.gra
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