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Laotian daughters : working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice
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Laotian daughters : working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice / Bindi V. Shah.
ISBN
9781439908136 (cloth : alk. paper)
1439908133 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781439908150 (pbk. : alk. paper)
143990815X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781439908167 (e-book)
1439908168 (e-book)
Published
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Physical Description
xi, 201 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 19, 2012
Series
Asian American history and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges
New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States
The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights
The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations
Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women
Building community, crafting belonging
Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".
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