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Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics


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Chinese American Masculinities From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee

Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee

1st Edition

By Jachinson Chan
May 06, 2016

This book is one of the first scholarly analyses of the current social constructions of Chinese American masculinities. Arguing that many of these notions are limited to stereotypes, Chan goes beyond this to present a more complex understanding of the topic. Incorporating historical references, ...

Claiming Chinese Identity

Claiming Chinese Identity

1st Edition

By Elionne L. W. Belden
October 30, 1997

This study of first generation Chinese youth and their parents who have immigrated to Houston reveals the ways in which this group resists assimilation into the dominant Western milieu and instead accommodates itself as a paracommunity with the culture of its host city. Chinese parents counter ...

Strangers in the City The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives

Strangers in the City: The Atlanta Chinese, Their Community and Stories of Their Lives

1st Edition

By Jianli Zhao
January 21, 2019

Based largely on interviews from residents of Atlanta's Chinese community, this book provides new insights on the rise of Asian communities in the Southeast United States since the US immigration policy changes in 1965....

Mothering, Education, and Ethnicity The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

Mothering, Education, and Ethnicity: The Transformation of Japanese American Culture

1st Edition

By Susan Matoba Adler
April 18, 2019

This postmodern feminist study explores changes in Japanese American women's perspectives on child rearing, education, and ethnicity across three generations-Nisei (second), Sansei (third), and Yonsei (fourth). Shifts in socio-political and cultural milieu have influenced the construction of racial...

Hmong American Concepts of Health

Hmong American Concepts of Health

1st Edition

By Dia Cha
December 04, 2018

America's healthcare system in the twenty-first century faces a variety of pressures and challenges, not the least of which is that posed by the increasingly multicultural nature of American society itself. Large numbers among the Hmong, immigrants from the landlocked Asian nation of Laos, ...

Dynamics of Ethnic Identity Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia

Dynamics of Ethnic Identity: Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia

1st Edition

By Jae-Hyup Lee
October 17, 2016

This comparative study of the Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American communities in Philadelphia shows that each Asian American community maintains its own internal cultural boundaries, which are used to cultivate differences that become institutionalized over time. Socially constructed ...

The Political Participation of Asian Americans Voting Behavior in Southern California

The Political Participation of Asian Americans: Voting Behavior in Southern California

1st Edition

By Pei-te Lien
July 20, 2016

Despite the size and relative prosperity of the Asian American ethnic population, the participation of Asian Americans in electoral politics has been low. This study explores the relationship between ethnic identity and political participation on three levels-between the four major racial/ethnic ...

Asian Americans and the Mass Media A Content Analysis of Twenty United States Newspapers and a Survey of Asian American Journalists

Asian Americans and the Mass Media: A Content Analysis of Twenty United States Newspapers and a Survey of Asian American Journalists

1st Edition

By Virginia Mansfield-Richardson
January 27, 2017

Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority in the United States comprising nearly 3 percent of the population, yet they are rarely given coverage in the U.S. media, as this book demonstrates. This book, written by an 11-year reporter of The Washington Post who is now an Associate Dean at ...

The Hmong Refugees Experience in the United States Crossing the River

The Hmong Refugees Experience in the United States: Crossing the River

1st Edition

By Ines M. Miyares
November 18, 2016

Cross the river, take off your shoes, Flee from your country, take off your status.-Hmong Proverb This book examines the experience of the Hmong people whose lives and culture were completely transformed by the covert war in Laos and the subsequent refugee resettlement in the United States. ...

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

Imagining the Filipino American Diaspora: Transnational Relations, Identities, and Communities

1st Edition

By Jonathan Y. Okamura
May 20, 2016

First published in 1998. The Philippines play a major role in expanding the international Filipino community through its promotion of international labor migration-Filipinos can currently be found in over 130 countries throughout the world. As the first major work to conceive of Filipino ...

Beyond Ke'eaumoku Koreans, Nationalism, and Local Culture in Hawai'i

Beyond Ke'eaumoku: Koreans, Nationalism, and Local Culture in Hawai'i

1st Edition

By Brenda L. Kwon
March 03, 2016

This book reclaims Korean history in Hawaii through the examination of works by three local writers of Korean descent: Margaret Pai, Ty Pak, and Gary Pak....

Between the Home and the Diaspora The Politics of Theorizing Filipino and Filipino American Identities

Between the Home and the Diaspora: The Politics of Theorizing Filipino and Filipino American Identities

1st Edition

By Susanah Lily L. Mendoza
December 18, 2015

Arguing for the contingent nature of theories and the need for nuanced perspectives in their invocation across politically-uneven contexts, this study models a way of productively engaging the current debates between deconstructive cultural criticism and the project of indigenization as these are ...

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