Religious Experience Among Second Generation Korean Americans

by Mark Hearn

Book Overview

This book explores the ways through which Korean American men demonstrate and navigate their manhood within a US context that has historically sorted them into several limiting, often emasculating, stereotypes. In the US, Korean men tend to be viewed as passive, non-athletic, and asexual (or hypersexual). They are often burdened with very specific expectations that run counter to traditional tropes of US masculinity. According to the normative script...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349955280
• ISBN13: 9781349955282
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"