Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xi, 201 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781439908167
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9781439908143
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9781283333870
Serie:
Asian American history and culture
Inhalt:
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 resist the negative stereotypes of race, class, and gender associated with their ethnic group.Using ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and archival data on their participation in Asian Youth Advocates—a youth leadership development project—Shah analyzes the teenagers' mobilization for
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. "Where We Live, Where We Work, Where We Play, Where We Learn": The Asian Pacific Environmental Network; 2. From Agent Orange to Superfund Sites to Anti-immigrant Sentiments: Multiple Voyages, Ongoing Challenges; 3. New Immigration and the American Nation: A Framework for Citizenship and Belonging; 4. The Politics of Race: Political Identity and the Struggle for Social Rights; 5. Negotiating Racial Hierarchies: Critical Incorporation, Immigrant Ideology, and Interminority Relations; 6. Family, Culture, Gender: Narratives of Ethnic Reconstruction
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7. Building Community, Crafting Belonging in Multiple Homes8. Becoming "American": Remaking American National Identity through Environmental Justice Activism; Appendix: Socio-demographic Information on Second-Generation Laotians Who Participated in the Study; Notes; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781439908150
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781439908136
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Laotian Daughters : Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Sprache:
Englisch
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