essay
Korean women in America: 1903-1930
Korean women in transition : at home and abroad • Los Angeles, Calif. • Published In 1987 • Pages: 167-181
By: Yang, Eun Sik.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study examines the contributions Korean women have made to the maintenance of ethnic identity in Korean American society and to their changing role within the family. Yang discusses the early immigration of Korean women, first to Hawaii and eventually to the U.S. mainland, their economic contributions to family life, their participation in church activities, and their involvement in various women's organizations many of whom were deeply concerned with the Korean Independence Movement of the early twentieth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Gender status
- Sodalities
- Pressure politics
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Korean Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1995
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1903-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Eun Sik Yang
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87018814
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Korean Americans