scholarly journals Korean-Black Relationships in Greater New York

Author(s):  
Pyong Gap Min ◽  

This paper examines Korean-black relationships in Greater New York in the past and at present. It also provides the author’s suggestions to improve the relationships between the two communities in the future. Korean immigrants encountered severe business-related conflicts with black customers in black neighborhoods during the 1980-1995 period. Their business-related conflicts have disappeared since the mid-1990s, as they stopped their business activities there. But the Korean community is residentially highly segregated from and has maintained only a moderate level of interactions with the black community. To strengthen the ties with the black community, Korean immigrants need education on blacks’ history and their current suffering of structural racism.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardian Bakhtiar Rivai

Discourse on Taiwan cannot be separated by the legacy of Japanese rule in the past era. This article aims to explore how Taiwan miracle between 1977 and 1983. Adopt the Gold thinking (1986) which discussed the complete Taiwan conditions in those years. I have the interest to understand Taiwan from as in the past as a lesson for today and the future. This book provides an understanding that Taiwan as a colony of Japan inherits the legacies are complete and provide a paradigm about the strong influence of Japan against Taiwan today.


2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-377
Author(s):  
Christina A. León

Abstract This article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagnosis with HIV, and persists and morphs through his later essays and poetry up until his eventual death in 1990 from AIDS complications. Writing defiantly as a queer, a feminist, a Puerto Rican, and a sidoso, he produced work that invites death and desire to commingle through a figuration of dust, as a scattered substance that covers skin, coats translation, and dirties conventional genres. Polvo illuminates the dimensions and risks of relation as a particulate matter that exposes our porosity—clinging and hovering in the space between bodies, between the past and the future, between life and death. As the dust settles in the wake of Hurricane María, so too can polvo be read as prescient for how coloniality lingers as enduring conditions of debility and precarity. Ramos Otero's affinity for finitude, figured through polvo, counterintuitively conjures a relational desire that privileges the porous, the marginal, and the always precarious possibility of survival. Polvo moves across the different genres and phases of Ramos Otero's work as a matter that refuses to disentangle the material realities of queerness and coloniality.


2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-299
Author(s):  
Brick Johnstone

Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury. Walter M. High, Jr., Angelle M. Sander, Margaret A. Struchen, and Karen A. Hart (Eds.). 2005. New York: Oxford University Press. 368 pp., $69.50 (HB).Rehabilitation for Traumatic Brain Injury, the final product of a 2003 conference that assembled national experts on traumatic brain injury (TBI) rehabilitation, was written to “bring into one volume a concise and authoritative account of what is currently known in the field of TBI rehabilitation.” It is intended for TBI clinicians and researchers including neuropsychologists, physiatrists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, and rehabilitation therapists. The volume is impressive for the number of chapter authors who are nationally recognized experts on various aspects of TBI rehabilitation (e.g., Drs. Prigatano, Malec, Corrigan, Levin, Boake, Diller, Sohlberg, and Cicerone), as well as the broad and inclusive range of topics covered.


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