Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation

by Kazuyo Tsuchiya

In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States and Japan went through massive welfare expansions that sparked debates about citizenship. At the heart of these disputes stood African Americans and Koreans. Reinventing Citizenship offers a comparative study of African American welfare activism in Los Angeles and Koreans' campaigns for welfare rights in Kawasaki. In working-class and poor neighborhoods in both locations, African Americans and Koreans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816681120
• ISBN13: 9780816681129
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"