{"product_id":"bitter-fruit-the-politics-of-black-korean-conflict-in-new-york-city-9780300093308","title":"Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claire Jean Kim\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConflict 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 conflict--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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKim 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.","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892250001559,"sku":"9780300093308","price":4052.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780300093308.webp?v=1781186221","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bitter-fruit-the-politics-of-black-korean-conflict-in-new-york-city-9780300093308","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}