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Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
Chia Youyee Vang
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Paperback. An unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 192 pages, 9 black and white photographs, 3 tables. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, Hmong America documents Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and settlement processes.
The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, Hmong America documents Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and settlement processes.
Vang depicts Hmong experiences in Asia and examines aspects of community building in America to reveal how new Hmong identities have been formed and how they have challenged popular assumptions about race and ethnicity in multicultural America. Combining participant observation and archival research with personal experience, Vang constructs a nuanced and complex portrait of the more than 130,000 Hmong ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
The Asian American Experience
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077593
SKU
V9780252077593
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About Chia Youyee Vang
Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Hmong in Minnesota.
Reviews for Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
"Chia Youyee Vang is a skilled historian and is among the scholars with the most expertise on Hmong American communities. Using a pathbreaking blend of archival and ethnographic evidence, she presents a unique interpretation of Hmong refugees and their descendants in the United States that cannot be found in any other existing work."
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