Sa-I-Gu

The year 1992 was a transformative year for me. I decided to end my career as a regional manager of a multi-million dollar company in California to pursue graduate work in Hawai’i. Growing up in northern California as a 1.5 generation Korean American in the early ‘70s offered me the opportunity to observe, experience, and unpack the challenges and transformation of immigrant families, post-civil rights movement. The notion of racial injustice was both ambiguous and clear for me as a young child. I was unsure why it happened, but I knew intuitively that it was wrong. Having racial epithets thrown at me was a common experience in the ‘70s, but like other immigrant youth, I learned to navigate the hostile racial climate by finding comfort and friendships with other youth of color and white friends who showed kindness to a non-native speaker

Immigration · Injustice · Kindness · Pedagogy · Political science · Racial formation theory · Racism · Sociology · Transformative learning · White (mutation · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy