| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City. By Claire Jean Kim. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. xii, 300 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-300-07406-9.)

Claire Jean Kim's account of African American boycotts of Korean-owned stores in Brooklyn in 1990 upends the conventional story of black-Korean conflict in American cities, in which African Americans lash out irrationally at conveniently available "scapegoats," Korean American merchants who have the misfortune to be caught in a conflict not of their own making. Meticulously and doggedly reconstructing the origins and development of the so-called Red Apple boycott, Kim shows that African American mobilization (and Korean countermobilization) arose not out of momentary flashes of racial resentment, but out of a wider political context that encourages racial and ethnic division and hierarchy, inflames group tensions, and shapes collective action. . . .

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