Laotian daughters : working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice /

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Laotian Daughters focuses on second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Bindi Shah's pathbreaking book charts these young women's efforts to improve the degraded conditions in their community and explores the ways their activism and political practices resis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shah, Bindi V., 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Asian American history and culture.
Temas:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
Laotian Americans > California > Contra Costa County.
Teenage girls > California > Contra Costa County.
Children of immigrants > California > Contra Costa County.
Environmental justice > California > Contra Costa County.
Américains d'origine laotienne > Californie > Contra Costa.
Adolescentes > Californie > Contra Costa.
Enfants d'immigrants > Californie > Contra Costa.
Justice environnementale > Californie > Contra Costa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Asian American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Children of immigrants.
Environmental justice.
Laotian Americans.
Race relations.
Teenage girls.
Contra Costa County (Calif.) > Race relations > Case studies.
California > Contra Costa County.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges
  • New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States
  • The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights
  • The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations
  • Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women
  • Building community, crafting belonging
  • Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American."

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