- Collection:
- Social Change Collection
- Title:
- Joanna Choi oral history interview, 2018-08-30
- Creator:
- Choi, Joanna
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lian, Jessie
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2018-08-30
- Subject:
- Immigrant families
Immigration
Korean Americans
Red Tree Coffee Company
Tea House Formosa - Location:
- Korea, 37.663998, 127.978458
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital audio formats - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Joanna Choi was born in Los Angeles, California in 1991, but her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia roughly 1-2 years after her birth. She explains what growing up in Atlanta was like for her and how she visited family in South Korea as a child. She talks about how she studied abroad in South Korea during her time in college. She was interested in the relations between North and South Korea. She explains how she focused on non-profit work after college, which did not work out. She ended up going into media and advertising.
In this interview, Joanna Choi explains her Korean roots and how her family came to Atlanta, Georgia. She also discusses studying abroad in college and her difficulties identifying with Koreans in Korea and her American friends in the United States. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/schange/id/845
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/schange:845/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to items in this collection is owned by Georgia State University. Items may be used for scholarship, educational, and personal use. Additional uses will require permission of the rights holder.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Joanna Choi interviewed by Jessie Lian August 30, 2018, In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project, Social Change Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 1:33:58
- Original Collection:
- In Whose Hearts is a Highway: The Buford Highway Oral History Project
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/1696
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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