Koreatown, Los Angeles – Immigration, Race, and the ""American Dream"" Lee
Koreatown, Los AngelesImmigration, Race, and the \""American Dream\""\nAuthor(s): Shelley Sang-Hee Lee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503613737, 978-1503613737\nSynopsis\nThe story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity.\n\n At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place following the passage of the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which dramatically altered US immigration policy and ushered in a new era of mass immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin America. By the 1970s, Korean immigrants were seeking to turn the area around Olympic Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles into a full-fledged \""Koreatown,\"" and over the following decades, they continued to build a community in LA.\n\n As Korean immigrants seized the opport.
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