Emerging voices : experiences of underrepresented Asian Americans

Emerging voices : experiences of underrepresented Asian Americans / edited by Huping Ling.

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 com...

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Other Authors: Ling, Huping, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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 > United States.
Sex role > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
Group identity
Sex role
South Asian Americans > Ethnic identity
South Asian Americans > Social conditions
Gruppenidentität
Geschlechterrolle
Ethnische Identität
Assimilation > Soziologie
United States
Südostasiaten
USA
Südasiaten.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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