Hyphenated Americanization of Korean Immigrants in an Inner-City High School

• In Event: Roundtable Session 96
  In Roundtable Session: Multicultural/Multiethnic Education: Cultural Perspectives

Abstract

This paper takes a close look at the school experiences of a group of Korean immigrant students at an inner-city public high school to better understand how the school’s social and academic organization and practices together with the students’ own interpretations and actions result in particular trajectories of identity development as members of American racial minority. The objectives include highlighting the role of schooling and peer relations in the formation of American identities for the participants, adding to the current understanding on recent immigrant school experiences, and suggesting some ways to improve their school experiences via multicultural education.

Author

• Gilbert C. Park, Ball State University