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Publication details [#58678]

Son, Inseo. 2014. Partly colored or almost white? Racial intermediacy and identificational ambivalence of grown children of Korean immigrants. Discourse & Society 25 : 766–782.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contraction | identity negotiation | immigrant | racism | social stratification

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study indicates that Korean Americans’ inconsistent racial identification (they do not regard themselves as minority, but state that they are not white) is closely linked to their racial intermediacy between whites and African Americans in the American racial stratification system.