Author: Sucheng Cha
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: history, cultu, american, asian, means, free, hmong
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 1994-04-27
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1566391636
ISBN-13: 9781566391634
This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity. From Jou Yee Xiong’s Life Story: ’I stopped teaching my sons many of the Hmong ways because I felt my ancestors and I had suffered enough already. I thought that teaching my children the old ways would only place a
Author: Jere Takahashi
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: history, cultu, american, asian, sansei, nisei
Number of Pages: 261
Published: 1998-06-22
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 156639659X
ISBN-13: 9781566396592
To talk about ’political style’ is to acknowledge a dynamic and somewhat improvisational approach to politics; it is to acknowledge the need to work within the limits presented by tradition, resources, and social context. To speak of ’political style’ in relation to a particular ethnic group is to recognize their agency in shaping their history. In "Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics", Jere Takahashi challenges studies that describe the Japanese American community’s essentially linear process toward assimilation into U.S. society. As
Author: Martin Manalansan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: amp, cultu, history, american, compass, asian, cultural
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2000-07-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1566397731
ISBN-13: 9781566397735
"Cultural Compass" rewrites the space of Asian Americans. Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, contributors reconfigure ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the United States. In these eleven essays, scholars in anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, and Asian American studies reconsider traditional models for ethnographic research. Drawing upon recent theoretical discussions and methodological innovations, the contributors explore the
Author: Tung Chin
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: american, history, amp, cultu, asian, story, son, one, man, paper
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2000-10-02
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1566398010
ISBN-13: 9781566398015
In this remarkable memoir, Tung Pok Chin casts light on the largely hidden experience of those Chinese who immigrated to this country with false documents during the Exclusion era. Although scholars have pieced together their history, first-person accounts are rare and fragmented; many of the so-called ’Paper Sons’ lived out their lives in silent fear of discovery. Chin’s story speaks for the many Chinese who worked in urban laundries and restaurants, but it also introduces an unusually articulate man’s perspective on becoming a Chinese American. Chin’s story begi
Authors:Sucheng Chan, Madeline Y. Hsu,
Publisher: Temple University Pre
Keywords: american, history, cultu, asian, culture, americans, politics, race, chinese
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-03-28
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1592137539
ISBN-13: 9781592137534
This collection offers multifaceted explorations of how Chinese Americans have shaped their ethnic culture and identities to claim recognition and acceptance as participants in America’s multiracial, multicultural democratic state. In a field that has recently demonstrated its centrality to American processes of racialized nation-state and ideological formations, these articles represent a cutting edge in American, immigration, and ethnic studies.Sucheng Chan introduces this valuable new anthology with a commanding discussion of the field of Chinese American studies, in which she examine
Author: Min Zhou
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: american, asian, history, amp, cultu, transformation, community, chinese, america, immigration, ethnicity, contemporary
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1592138586
ISBN-13: 9781592138586
Book Description Contemporary Chinese America is the most comprehensive sociological investigation of the experiences of Chinese immigrants to the United States—and of their offspring—in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author, Min Zhou, is a well-known sociologist of the Chinese American experience. In this volume she collects her original research on a range of subjects, including the causes and consequences of emigration from China, demographic trends of Chinese Americans, patterns of residential mobility in the U.S., Chinese American “ethnoburbs,” immi
Author: Alvin Eng
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: amp, asian, cultu, history, america, queer, american
Number of Pages: 445
Published: 1998-08-24
List price: $83.50
ISBN-10: 1566396395
ISBN-13: 9781566396394
What does it mean to be queer and Asian-American at the turn of the century? The writers, activists, essayists, and artists who contribute to this volume consider how Asian-American racial identity and queer sexuality interconnect in mutually shaping and complicating ways. Their collective aim (in the words of the editors) is "to articulate a new conception of Asian-American racial identity, its heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity-concepts that have after all underpinned the Asian-American moniker from its very inception. Q & A approaches matters of identity from a variety of po
