Hmong America Reconstructing Community in Diaspora

Name: Hmong America Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
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ISBN: 9780252077593

ISBN-10: 0252077598

ISBN-13: 9780252077593

Edition: 2010

Authors: Chia Youyee Vang

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The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community,Hmong Americadocuments Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and settlement processes. Vang depicts Hmong experiences in Asia and examines aspects of community building in America to reveal how new Hmong identities have been formed and how they have challenged popular assumptions about race and ethnicity in multicultural America. With an approach that intermingles the archival research of a historian, the personal experiences of a refugee, and the participant-observer perspectives of a community insider, Vang…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 12/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Chronology of Relevant Events


Introduction



Hmong History and Migration Prior to America



A New Home in America



Re-Creation of Social Structures



Continuity and Reinvention of Traditions



Political Activism


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index