Diversity in diaspora
Subtitle: Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century
By: edited by Mark Edward Pfeifer, Monica Chiu, and Kou Yang
Publisher: University of Hawai  i Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780824835972
Subjects: Hmong Americans
Other titles: Hmong Americans in the twenty-first century
Description: The Secret War in Laos, which was part of the Vietnam War and the Cold War, ended in 1975. The end of this war forced an estimated one-half of the Hmong of Laos to become refugees abroad, and the majority of these refugees were resettled in the United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The American experience of the Hmong : a historical review / by Kou Yang; title: Hmong Americans : a demographic portrait / by Mark Pfeifer; title: An analysis of poverty in Hmong American communities / by Yang Sao Xiong; title: Civic values and political engagement in two Hmong American communities / by Carolyn Wong; title: Electoral participation in the Hmong American community : an initial analysis / by Stephen Doherty; title: Great expectations : the struggles of Hmong American high school boys / by Bic Ngo and Pa Nhia Lor; title: Women in the Hmong diaspora / by Dia Cha; title: Hmong Americans : the conceptualization and experience of aging in the United States / by Linda Gerdner; title: The double diaspora : China and Laos in the folklore of Hmong American refugees / by Jeremy Hein; title: "Reharmonizing" the generations : rap, poetry, and Hmong oral tradition / by Nick Poss; title: Haunting and inhabitation in Yang's Latehomecomer : a Hmong family memoir / by Monica Chiu; title: Hmong American studies : a bibliographic essay / by Mark Pfeifer.