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Koreans in Central California (1903-1957)
A Study of Settlement and Transnational Politics
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2010
Summary
The Korean Kingdom and the United States signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce in 1882. This treaty opened Korea to American missionaries who proselytized Christianity to the Koreans. When Hawaii sugar planters recruited Koreans to come to Hawaii to work in the Hawaii sugar plantations, they picked most of the Korean Hawaii emigrants from the Korean Christian converts. Between 1902 and 1905, some 7,000 of them immigrated to Hawaii. Of those 7,000, about 2,000 transmigrated to the mainland. Most of these Hawaii Korean trans-migrants settled on the West Coast, primarily in California. This book tells the Korean immigrants' life stories in California's eight San Joaquin Valley farm communities: Fresno, Hanford, Visalia, Dinuba, Reedley, Delano, Willows, and Maxwell. It describes how they survived through discrimination and injustices in early twentieth-century America, and also details the Korean immigrants' efforts to regain their lost motherland from Japanese colonialism (1910-1945).
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-5220-9
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-5221-6
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
230
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Foreword by Russell J. Mardon No access
Foreword by Ken Klein No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Abbreviations No access
Chapter One. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 17
Chapter Two. The Beginnings of Korean Settlement in California’s Central Valley (1903–1909) No access Pages 18 - 39
Chapter Three. The Dinuba Korean Pioneers (1909–1945) No access Pages 40 - 75
Chapter Four. The Reedley Group and the Korean Community (1921–1957) No access Pages 76 - 120
Chapter Five. The Korean Left and the Reedley Group (1920–1957) No access Pages 121 - 156
Chapter Six. The Koreans in Delano, Willows, and Maxwell, California (1913–1957) No access Pages 157 - 184
Chapter Seven. The Roles of the State, Social Capital, and Transnationalism No access Pages 185 - 210
Chapter Eight. Conclusion No access Pages 211 - 216
