Laotian daughters
Subtitle: working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice
By: Bindi V. Shah
Series: Asian American history and culture; Asian American history and culture
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781439908136; 9781439908150; 9781439908167
Subjects: Asian Pacific Environmental Network; Race relations; Case studies; Teenage girls; Environmental justice; Children of immigrants; Laotian Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges; title: New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States; title: The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights; title: The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations; title: Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women; title: Building community, crafting belonging; title: Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".