Title: Educating new Americans
First published: 1999
Description: Educating New Americans examines what it means to be an American through the history of a refugee from Laos. Shou Cha is a community liaison for an elementary school, an evangelical preacher, a community leader, a husband, and a father. His lifetime of learning, presented mostly in his own voice, is framed by various historical and sociological contexts that have shaped his life, the lives of other Hmong refugees, and the lives of other Americans, old and new.

These contexts include the history of immigrant education policies in the United States, as seen through the lives of immigrant children; the historical and sociological impact of warfare as well as missionary work on the lives of the Hmong people; and the sociology of generational conflict, especially as it is felt among immigrant groups. Finally, this book suggests that immigrant parents such as Shou Cha can contribute to the process of teaching peace to children, and making peace among diverse groups in America, the land of e pluribus unum.
Subjects: Immigrants, Case studies, Social life and customs, Hmong Americans, Americanization, Education, Multicultural education, Biography, Biographies, Americanisation, M¿urs et coutumes, Students & Student Life, Education interculturelle, Educators, Americains d'origine miao, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Etudes de Cas, Cas, Études de, Éducation, Éducation interculturelle, Mœurs et coutumes, Américains d'origine miao, Américanisation, Immigrants, united states, Second language acquisition, Études de cas
Places: United States
People: Cher Shou Cha
LC classification: LC3731 .H635 1999