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Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries

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Description for Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries paperback. Looks at post-1960s Asian American communities in the US and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this collection focuses on global views of Asian American communities as well as on territorial and cultural boundaries. It examines challenges Asian American communities face in the 21st century. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 481.
The last half century witnessed a dramatic change in the geographic, ethnographic, and socioeconomic structure of Asian American communities. While traditional enclaves were strengthened by waves of recent immigrants, native-born Asian Americans also created new urban and suburban areas.

Asian America is the first comprehensive look at post-1960s Asian American communities in the United States and Canada. From Chinese Americans in Chicagoland to Vietnamese Americans in Orange County, this multi-disciplinary collection spans a wide comparative and panoramic scope. Contributors from an array of academic fields focus on global views of Asian American communities as well as on territorial and cultural boundaries.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813544878
SKU
V9780813544878
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Ref
99-1

About
Huping Ling is a professor of history at Truman State University. She is the executive editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies and an award-winning author and editor of ten books, including Emerging Voices (Rutgers University Press), Voices of the Heart, Chinese St. Louis, and Surviving on the Gold Mountain.

Reviews for Asian America: Forming New Communities, Expanding Boundaries
This volume of solid scholarship presents fresh and original researchfindings highlighting new phenomena in Asian American communities.
Shehong Chen
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

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