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Condition Notes: Tight binding! Highlights on ONLY 6 pages, otherwise pages super crisp/clean! Hardcover/dustjacket have some VERY light shelf/edge wear, otherwise EXCELLENT! 

Title: Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City
Author: Professor Claire Jean Kim
Format: Hardcover
Publication Year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 320
ISBN-10: 0300074069
ISBN-13: 9780300074062

About the Book: Conflict between Blacks and Koreans has increased in American cities during the past two decades. In this timely book, Claire Jean Kim investigates the most prolonged episode of such conflicts as the Flatbush Boycott of 1990, when Black nationalist and Haitian activists led a boycott and picketing campaign against two Korean-owned produce stores in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Drawing on years of in-depth interviewing, Kim helps us understand why Black activists engage in such collective actions and why other parties respond as they do.

Kim rejects conventional wisdom that Black-Korean conflict constitutes racial scapegoating, the irrational venting of Black rage on Korean merchants. She argues instead that it is in response to White dominance in American society, which generates a distinct racial order that encourages conflict among different groups, provokes racial resistance, and delegitimates and silences such resistance. Kim asserts that the Flatbush Boycott was part of a larger resurgence of Black Power activism in New York City, that Haitian immigrants mobilized out of overlapping transnational and racial identities, and that Korean Americans responded by launching a countermovement seeking to restore the status quo. Racial protests are inevitable, she says, as long as conditions of racial injustice prevail.

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