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Journal of Southeast Asian American education & advancement : JSAAEA.
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Dorchester, Mass. : National Association for the Education and Advancement of Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Americans

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Southeast Asian Archive newsletter
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Publisher: Irvine, CA : The Archive

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Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement

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Emerging Voices
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ISBN: 9786612033469 1282033468 0813546257 9780813546254 9780813543413 9780813543420 081354341X 0813543428 6612033460 9781282033467 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, NJ

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While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of whom made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities, many of the groups discussed in this volume fled war or political persecution in their homeland. Forced to make drastic transitions in America with little physical or psychological preparation, questions of “why am I here,” “who am I,” and “why am I discriminated against,” remain at the heart of their post-emigration experiences. Bringing together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, this collection considers a wide range of themes, including assimilation and adaptation, immigration patterns, community, education, ethnicity, economics, family, gender, marriage, religion, sexuality, and work.


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Hmong studies journal
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ISSN: 10911774 Year: 1996 Publisher: St. Paul, Minn Robin Vue-Benson


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In the path of the storms
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ISBN: 0817380736 9780817380731 9780817355043 0817355049 Year: 2008 Publisher: Auburn, Ala. Tuscaloosa, Ala. Pebble Hill Books/Auburn University Published with University of Alabama Press

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The Gulf Coast villages of Bayou La Batre and Coden are two of Alabama's most distinctive, with roots going back to the French settlements of the 18th century. For generations, the proud inhabitants of these communities have extracted their modest livings from the sea, sustained by a lesson handed down over time- that providing for the needs of one's family is the only true measure of success. But the world has changed drastically for them. A global economy of higher gas prices and cheap imported seafood has threatened the lifeblood of the area. And in recent years a rash of hurricanes, c

Heartwood : the first generation of Theravada Buddhism in America.
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ISBN: 0226088995 0226089002 9780226089003 9780226089010 0226089010 9780226088990 Year: 2005 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Theravada is one of the three main branches of Buddhism. In Asia it is practiced widely in Thailand, Laos, Burma, Sri Lanka, and Cambodia. This fascinating ethnography opens a window onto two communities of Theravada Buddhists in contemporary America: one outside Philadelphia that is composed largely of Thai immigrants and one outside Boston that consists mainly of white converts. Wendy Cadge first provides a historical overview of Theravada Buddhism and considers its specific origins here in the United States. She then brings her findings to bear on issues of personal identity, immigration, cultural assimilation, and the nature of religion in everyday life. Her work is the first systematic comparison of the ways in which immigrant and convert Buddhists understand, practice, and adapt the Buddhist tradition in America. The men and women whom Cadge meets and observes speak directly to us in this work, both in their personal testimonials and as they meditate, pray, and practice Buddhism. Creative and insightful, 'Heartwood' will be of enormous value to sociologists of religion and anyone wishing to understand the rise of Buddhism in the Western world.

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