The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and US Sovereignty, 1905–1945
The Quest for Statehood: Korean Immigrant Nationalism and US Sovereignty, 1905–1945 …

… The book reveals much about the nationalist activities of Koreans in the United States during
the colonial period, though it fails to portray the immigrants as people with interests other …

… , is the nationalism of the Korean diaspora. Richard S. Kim’s The Quest for Statehood is one
of … Kim’s study examines the history of nationalist activities by Korean immigrants in the US …

… politics” in the United States, Kim focuses on Korean immigrant communities in four US sites
– … state power … informed the politics of Korean diasporic nationalism in its quest to achieve …

… “quest to achieve sovereign statehood (13)” that … from Korean American immigration in
the 1900s to Korea’s 1945 … -Japanese US diplomat Durham Stevens; anti-Asian expulsion of …

… The book reveals much about the nationalist activities of Koreans in the United States during
the colonial period, though it fails to portray the immigrants as people with interests other …

… in explaining how Koreans' clientelistic reliance on American patronage before World War
II shaped a similarly dependent relationship of anticommunist “development” after 1945, a …

… 1919 and 1945—to their lack of access to citizenship in the … of why US officials persistently
refused to recognize the Korean provisional government and doubted the ability of Koreans to …

… between 1905 and 1945, Koreans in the United States struggled … United States, Korean
immigrants faced discriminatory laws preventing their naturalization, after 1924 their immigration, …

… of Korea between 1905 and 1945. Simultaneously, … was a territory rather than a state of the
US Given these circumstances, … unconditional acceptance of US sovereignty as fundamental …