Young-Ok Hong, Clip 3: Difficulties Dealing With Layered Identity

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Young-Ok Hong

Date: Time Period: 1991-2018; 2018-03-20; Interview recorded: March 20, 2018 Material: Digital audio recording made using Iphone6 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:03:34

Creator: Young-Ok Hong interviewed by Eun-Mi Kim Identifier: aql:27850 Hong_Young_Okclip_FissureInKoreanIdentity

Description: Ms. Hong gives her personal take on the difficulties of identity for Korean Americans born in New York City. She wishes that the Korean churches would be more proactive in strengthening Korean identity during formative years. She claims that Korean Americans are caught between a double standard of being raised in American but not being considered Americans by larger society. Recorded in Korean.

Title : Young-Ok Hong, Clip 3: Difficulties Dealing With Layered Identity

Collection : aql:20455; aql:27851

Creator : Young-Ok Hong interviewed by Eun-Mi Kim

Date : Time Period: 1991-2018; 2018-03-20; Interview recorded: March 20, 2018

Summary/Description : Ms. Hong gives her personal take on the difficulties of identity for Korean Americans born in New York City. She wishes that the Korean churches would be more proactive in strengthening Korean identity during formative years. She claims that Korean Americans are caught between a double standard of being raised in American but not being considered Americans by larger society. Recorded in Korean.

Subject : Immigrant children; Church work with immigrants; Ethnicity; Korean Americans

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Young-Ok Hong

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing and Forest Hills, Queens, New York, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Iphone6 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:03:34

Identifier : aql:27850 Hong_Young_Okclip_FissureInKoreanIdentity