Failing Our Fathers: Confronting the Crisis of Economically Vulnerable Nonresident Fathers

white on the inside), assimilated/whitewashed old timers and FOBs (Fresh Off the Boat), or unassimilated newcomers. She portrays how the two groups differed in language use, Americanization, social networking, academic performance, and behavior patterns, and especially how FOBs were marginalized. The chapter, however, does not fulfill the promise of its title by thoroughly examining the impact of the identities on school learning. In Chapter Twelve, Miliann Kang asks: ‘‘Are second-generation Korean-American women tiger mothers?’’ Her response: the answer is ‘‘very complicated’’ and perhaps both no and yes to some extent. Using the profiles of three Korean mothers as data, she shrewdly delineates three differential parenting styles of second-generation Korean mothers as responses to the U.S. racial context: strategic racialized mothering, transnational racialized mothering, and resistant racialized mothering. Overall, this anthology presents a microcosm of younger-generation Korean experiences in North America by pulling together all important aspects of their lives in one single volume. It does so via both quantitative and qualitative approaches, often using original data that is as current as possible. Quite a few chapters offer useful information not handily available in existing volumes on second-generation Korean Americans. It sets a nice example for the analysis of the second-generation experience for other ethnic groups. Uneven quality of contributed articles is a common weakness in edited volumes, and this book is no exception, as critiqued in the preceding paragraphs. Another blemish is the lopsided distribution of articles across the covered countries, as only two out of the twelve articles pertain to Korean youth experience in Canada in the area of mental health. Hence, the experience reflected in the book should be largely taken as the Korean American experience. These cavils notwithstanding, this collection, laden with broad interdisciplinary knowledge of, and many insights into, the experiences of 1.5and second-generation Koreans in North America, will be a treasured reference for scholars and students in Korean North American studies, international migration studies, ethnic studies, and the social sciences.