Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black–Korean Conflict in New York City. By Claire Jean Kim. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. 300p. $37.50

Richard M. Merelman

American Political Science Review, 2002, vol. 96, issue 2, 424-425

Abstract: In this case study of the 1990 Red Apple Boycott of two Korean-owned produce stores in Brooklyn, New York, Claire Kim narrates a complex story of resurgent Black Nationalism, the rise of Korean resistance to blacks, and the fateful temporizing of Mayor David Dinkins, whose belated crossing of the boycott picket lines deeply injured his mayoralty. Kim has high ambitions in telling this story; she wishes to use it to displace a flawed “racial scapegoating” theory of black–Korean relations and to advance in its stead her own theory of “racial ordering” in the United States.

Date: 2002
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