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The chapter focuses on the narratives of second-generation Korean American men Hearn interviews. They narrate stories of struggle in the workplace and in dating and reveal a limitation imposed by society in their pursuit of their notions of manhood. For some of the men, their desire to become men, as understood in the USA, is severely hampered by existing and unspoken discrimination in the professional and social spheres. They are not able to achieve the normative gender scripts society deems valid on account of the structural and historical scripts society projects onto Asian American men.
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Hearn, M.C. (2016). Listening to Korean American Men Tell Their Lives. In: Religious Experience Among Second Generation Korean Americans. Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59413-6_3
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