Author : Esther Hah
Publisher : The Hermit Kingdom Press
ISBN 13 : 1596890746
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)
Book Synopsis Korean-American Voices of Youth in New Jersey by : Esther Hah
Download or read book Korean-American Voices of Youth in New Jersey written by Esther Hah and published by The Hermit Kingdom Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Korean-American teenagers from New Jersey write about their own experiences and reflections. This book, containing 9 essays by Korean-American youths from Junior and Senior High Schools in New Jersey, gives an excellent picture of the hopes and fears of Korean-American youth throughout the United States of America. Korean-American teenage experience is one of being caught between a rock and a hard place. There is the Korean culture that their parents continue to cherish and develop both culturally and socially within the American context and there is the "American" culture they are exposed in their schools and from MTV and mass media. What to do? How to think? What way to go? This book is a look into honest feelings and struggles of Korean-American teenagers frm New Jersey. Esther Hah, the Editor, is a senior from Northern Valley Regional High School-Damarest. located in Bergen County, New Jersey. She is the president of the Fountain and Rock Church Youth Group in Emerson, New Jersey, a Korean-American church where her father is the Senior Pastor.