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Introduction -- The making of Koreatown, LA -- Convergent destinies and the ethnic elite -- The events that shook the world -- The politics of incorporation and marginalization today -- The historical evolution of KYCC and KIWA -- Giving back to the community -- Doing politics without the politics -- Organizational carework and the women of KYCC and KIWA -- United we stand, divided we speak

Studies on coalition building have neglected the role of historical, cultural, and spatial relationships in shaping the development of interethnic coalitions, particularly between immigrant and native-born minority groups. Based on interviews, participant observation, and archival research on one public space coalition in Koreatown and West Adams, the author argues that (1) the intersection of use and exchange positions among organized segments of both communities provided the interest basis for coalition building, and (2) the competing claims of Koreans around their financial contributions and African-Americans around political and territorial advantages forced each side to negotiate and recognize the benefits of coalescing.

Social and geopolitical disruptions triggered by the COVID‐19 crisis have raised crucial questions about the shifting meaning of race, citizenship, and nationality for transborder migrants amidst receding globalization, hardening borders, and geopolitical tensions. The aim of this paper is to examine the ways in which Chinese international students have viewed and negotiated their ambiguous racial and ethnonational position between nations during the global pandemic. Drawing on 16 student interviews at one upstate New York campus between 2019 and 2021, we argue that Chinese international students have occupied a liminal space between nations that shapes their understanding of race and racism through a distinctly geopolitical lens. Double‐edged exclusion and discrimination from both the US and China during the global pandemic have heightened their sense of social dislocation and withdrawal from nationalist politics in both countries. In the process, they have not so much surrendered the cosmopolitan ideals that motivated their migration but rather, reimagined them while maintaining a delicate balance between global cosmopolitan ideals and ethnonationalist loyalties. Our findings provide insights into the future political trajectory of Chinese transborder migrants amid tense US–China relations and help to explain the contradictions of diasporic Chinese worldviews on current affairs.

Examines how demographic, economic, and political transitions in American society have changed the nature of race relations since the social upheavals of the 1960s, focusing on strategies to overcome racial and ethnic divisions. Includes the effects of changing global conditions, neoconservative ideology, racial identity politics, and the shift from White/Black to inter-minority conflict.

This multidisciplinary collection explores the ways in which the lives of immigrants' daughters are shaped by forces of race, gender, migration, sexuality, family, and nation outside of their control. The contributors examine how the women navigate these forces as individuals and as members of collectivities.