From From by Monica Youn

Author:Monica Youn [Youn, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2022-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

In the previous two sections, I use the pronoun “they” rather than the pronoun “we.” This reflects my discomfort with including myself in the “they.” My family did not come here as laborers. Nor did they come here in the post-INA wave of immigrants, who—although many were highly educated in their home countries—often had to take low-paying, low-status jobs.

Through connections in the Korean government and the US military, my parents were able to emigrate to the US in the late 1950s, when Korea was suffering through the immediate aftermath of an American war. They attended college in the US, then graduate school, met each other, married, moved directly into the professional classes. Or, more accurately, they had never left the professional classes. Growing up in Houston, our neighborhood was otherwise all White. Our family’s social circle was comprised of the families of pre-INA Korean American engineers with doctorates. All of them had gone to the same exclusive private high school in Seoul.

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