The YCC parents know about the hagwon but cannot afford to send their children. As educational strategies, they rely on their children’s public schools, which in turn often marginalize them. In some cases, the parents embark on a series of transfers of their children through the public school system in search of a better match. While the latter strategy is well intentioned, it only has the effect of further isolating their children as the youth struggle to adapt to a host of new environments without adequate supports. As a small point, a map charting where the YCC and MH youth lived in Queens and more informa- tion on the schools they attended would give us a better picture of the differ- ences in their economic and racial isolation within these important contexts. Lew raises some key points that scholars of education should pay attention to in our future work. For example, she notes that the MH parents turn to the hagwon not only to compensate for their own limitations but also those of the magnet high school. It would be interesting to learn more about the advantages and limitations of magnet high schools, particularly for immigrant and / or minority children, as a way of unpacking the diversity of experiences in such high academically performing schools. Further, while some of the MH students come from families with lower socioeconomic status, Lew finds that they have had previous interactions with co-ethnics from a higher social status. It would be worth examining how some working-class immigrant youth are able to interact with co-ethnics across class lines, and to benefit from this interaction, and how others either do not and / or do not receive as great an advantage. The findings presented by Lew in Asian Americans in Class offer a valu- able contribution to the following domains: how ethnic social capital is deployed in education and to what effect in immigrant communities, how there is a wide range in educational experience among Korean-American youth, a group long touted as a model minority along with other Asian Amer- icans, and, finally, the institutional characteristics and key actors crucial to building social capital. In the end, Lew powerfully demonstrates that social capital needs to be ethnically and nonethnically based. Race and Imperialism in the New Millennium: A New Global Approach to Korean America Angie Y. Chung 5 Imperial Citizens. Nadia Kim. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Like many children of immigrants who have spent time in their parents’ homeland, my first visit to Korea as an adult raised more questions than it 5 Department of Sociology, SUNY at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Arts & Sciences 351, Albany, New York 12222; e-mail: aychung@albany.edu. 174 Chung