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Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

ix, 265 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.

Other Authors:

Ling, Huping, 1956-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN:

0813543428 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813543420 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081354341X (hc : alk. paper)
9780813543413 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181142287

LCCN:

2007051727

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)