Writing from these roots
Subtitle: literacy in a Hmong-American community
By: John Duffy.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780824830953
Subjects: Hmong Americans -- Education; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States; Hmong language -- Writing -- History; Hmong (Asian people) -- China; Hmong (Asian people) -- Laos
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Lost books and broken promises: the Hmong people in China and Laos; title: Rumors, ropes, and redemptions: Hmong writing systems in China and Laos; title: Never to hold a pencil: the problem with "preliteracy"; title: Other gods and countries: Hmong literacy development in Laos; title: Writing Hmong Americans: reading and writing in the United States; title: Hmong Americans rewriting: testimony, gender, and civic life.