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Displacements and diasporas : Asians in the Americas /

Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnationa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Anderson, Wanni W. (Wanni Wibulswasdi), 1937- (Editor ), Lee, Robert G., 1947- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee
  • Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee
  • Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong
  • Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai
  • On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
  • From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser
  • In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious
  • Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller
  • From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais
  • Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson
  • Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira
  • Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee
  • Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann
  • The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr.