Laotian Daughters : Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shah, Bindi V., 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Series:Asian American history and culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Asian Pacific Environmental Network.
Environmental justice > California > Contra Costa County.
Children of immigrants > California > Contra Costa County.
Teenage girls > California > Contra Costa County.
Laotian Americans > California > Contra Costa County.
Contra Costa County (Calif.) > Race relations > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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