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Institute for Corean-American Studies
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Pyong Gap Min
Biographic Sketch
Pyong Gap Min is the author of Changes and Conflicts: Korean Immigrant
Families in New York (Allyn and Bacon, 1998), Caught in the Middle:
Korean Merchants in America's Multiethnic Cities (the University of
California Press, 1996), and Ethnic Business Enterprise: Korean Small
Business in Atlanta (Center for Migration Studies, 1988). His book,
Caught in the Middle, was selected as the 1997 winner of the National
Book Award in Social Science by the Association for Asian American Studies
and a co-winner of the Annual Book Award by the Asian and Asian American
Studies section of the American Sociological Associations. He is the editor
of Asian Americans: Contemporary Trends and Issues (Sage, 1995) to which he
contributed five chapters. He also is a co-editor of Struggle for Ethnic
Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals (Altamira Press, 1999).
In addition, he has published extensively in social science journals and in
edited books on Korean and Asian Americans. Currently, he is working on
three major books; A Comparison of Two Mass Migration Periods, 1880-1930
and 1965-Present (Penn State University Press), Second-Generation Asian
Americans' Ethnic Identity (University of Hawaii Press), and Asian
Immigrants' Religious Experiences (Altamira Press).
This page last updated 3/6/2001 jdb
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