Emerging voices
Subtitle: experiences of underrepresented Asian Americans
By: edited by Huping Ling.
Contributors: Linghu, Ping, 1956-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780813543413; 9780813543420
Subjects: South Asian Americans -- Social conditions; South Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; South Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Southeast Asian Americans -- Social conditions; Southeast Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity; Southeast Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Group identity -- United States; Sex role -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping Ling; title: From Laos to America : the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng; title: Cultural transition and adjustment : the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao; title: The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community : a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe; title: "Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary : Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi; title: Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham; title: Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa; title: Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski; title: Thai Americans : performing gender / Jiemin Bao; title: The gender of practice : some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira; title: Women of the temple : Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho; title: Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah; title: Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang; title: Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang.