Korean-American teenagers from New Jersey write about their own experiences and reflections in 2007. The nine essays give an excellent picture of the hopes and fears of Korean-American youth throughout the United States. (Youth Issues)

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...