Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics
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...
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....
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, ...
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
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. ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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
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 ...
Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players
1st Edition
By Yuko Kurahashi
December 07, 2015
This book captures the 30-year history of the East West Players (EWP), tracing the company's representation of Asian Americans through the complex social and cultural changes of the past three decades....