ISBN:
9780813546254
,
0813546257
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 265 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Emerging voices
DDC:
305.8914073
Keywords:
South Asian Americans Social conditions
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South Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
South Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
Southeast Asian Americans Social conditions
;
Southeast Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
Southeast Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
Group identity United States
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Sex role United States
;
Southeast Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
Southeast Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
Group identity
;
Sex role
;
South Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
Southeast Asian Americans Social conditions
;
South Asian Americans Social conditions
;
South Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
South Asian Americans Social conditions
;
South Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
South Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
Southeast Asian Americans Social conditions
;
Southeast Asian Americans Ethnic identity
;
Southeast Asian Americans Cultural assimilation
;
Group identity
;
Sex role
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; Asian American Studies
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Group identity
;
Sex role
;
South Asian Americans ; Ethnic identity
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South Asian Americans ; Social conditions
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Gruppenidentität
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Ethnische Identität
;
Assimilation
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
United States
;
Südostasiaten
;
USA
;
Südasiaten
;
Electronic book
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction : emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping Ling -- From Laos to America : the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng -- Cultural transition and adjustment : the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao -- The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community : a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe -- "Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary : Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi -- Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham -- Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa -- Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski -- Thai Americans : performing gender / Jiemin Bao -- The gender of practice : some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira -- Women of the temple : Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho -- Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah -- Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang -- Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang.
Abstract:
While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of whom made the choice
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping LingFrom Laos to America : the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng -- Cultural transition and adjustment : the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao -- The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community : a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe -- "Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary : Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi -- Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham -- Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa -- Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski -- Thai Americans : performing gender / Jiemin Bao -- The gender of practice : some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira -- Women of the temple : Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho -- Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah -- Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang -- Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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