ISBN:
9780813543413
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1282033468
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9781282033467
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (278 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Emerging Voices : Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans
DDC:
305.891/4073
Keywords:
Southeast Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction: Emerging Voices of Underrepresented Asian Americans; Part I: Emerging Consciousness: Emigration and Ethnic Identity; Chapter 2: From Laos to America: The Hmong Community in the United States; Chapter 3: Cultural Transition and Adjustment: The Experiences of the Mong in the United States; Chapter 4: The Role of Ethnic Leaders in the Refugee Community: A Case Study of the Lowland Lao in the American Midwest; Chapter 5: "Displaced People" Adjusting to New Cultural Vocabulary: Tibetan Immigrants in North America
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6: Unity and Diversity among Indonesian Migrants to the United StatesChapter 7: Dynamics, Intricacy, and Multiplicity of Romani Identity in the United States; Chapter 8: Community Identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States; Part II: Emerging Contributions: Gender, Work, Religion, and Education; Chapter 9: Thai Americans: Performing Gender; Chapter 10: The Gender of Practice: Some Findings among Thai Buddhist Women in Northern California; Chapter 11: Women of the Temple: Burmese Immigrants, Gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. Frame
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12: The Function of Ethnicity in the Adaptation of Burmese Religious PracticesChapter 13: Parent-Child Conflict within the Mong Family; Chapter 14: Hmong American Contemporary Experience; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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