Laotian Daughters Working Toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice

Name: Laotian Daughters Working Toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
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ISBN: 9781439908150

ISBN-10: 143990815X

ISBN-13: 9781439908150

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bindi V. Shah

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'Laotian Daughters' focuses on second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Shah's book charts these young women's efforts to improve the conditions in their community and explores the ways their activism and political practices resist the negative stereotypes of race and gender associated with ethnicity.

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 12/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Acknowledgments



"Where We Live, Where We Work, Where We Play, Where We Learn": The Asian Pacific Environmental Network



From Agent Orange to Superfund Sites to Anti-immigrant Sentiments: Multiple Voyages, Ongoing Challenges



New Immigration and the American Nation: A Framework for Citizenship and Belonging



The Politics of Race: Political Identity and the Struggle for Social Rights



Negotiating Racial Hierarchies: Critical Incorporation, Immigrant Ideology, and Interminority Relations



Family, Culture, Gender: Narratives of Ethnic Reconstruction



Building Community, Crafting Belonging in Multiple Homes



Becoming "American": Remaking American National Identity through Environmental Justice Activism


Appendix Socio-demographic Information on Second-Generation Laotians Who Participated in the Study


Notes


References


Index