Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Hmong in Minnesota.

"Chia Youyee Vang is a skilled historian and is among the scholars with the most expertise on Hmong American communities. Using a pathbreaking blend of archival and ethnographic evidence, she presents a unique interpretation of Hmong refugees and their descendants in the United States that cannot be found in any other existing work."--Jeremy Hein, author of Ethnic Origins: The Adaptatation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities "The most comprehensive account to date of contemporary Hmong American history. . . . A true strength of the volume is Vang's detailed account of how Hmong American communities across the United States have evolved since the refugee resettlement of the mid-1970s."--Minnesota History "An invaluable introduction to contemporary Hmong American society."--Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement

• List of Illustrations   ixForeword   xiPreface   xiiiAcknowledgments   xviiChronology of Relevant Events   xxIntroduction   11. Hmong History and Migration Prior to America   172. A New Home in America   443. Re-creation of Social Structures   684. Continuity and Reinvention of Traditions   975. Political Activism   122Conclusion   150Notes   163Bibliography   181Index   193

Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Hmong in Minnesota.

"Chia Youyee Vang is a skilled historian and is among the scholars with the most expertise on Hmong American communities. Using a pathbreaking blend of archival and ethnographic evidence, she presents a unique interpretation of Hmong refugees and their descendants in the United States that cannot be found in any other existing work."--Jeremy Hein, author of Ethnic Origins: The Adaptatation of Cambodian and Hmong Refugees in Four American Cities "The most comprehensive account to date of contemporary Hmong American history. . . . A true strength of the volume is Vang's detailed account of how Hmong American communities across the United States have evolved since the refugee resettlement of the mid-1970s."--Minnesota History "An invaluable introduction to contemporary Hmong American society."--Journal of Southeast Asian American Education & Advancement

• List of Illustrations   ixForeword   xiPreface   xiiiAcknowledgments   xviiChronology of Relevant Events   xxIntroduction   11. Hmong History and Migration Prior to America   172. A New Home in America   443. Re-creation of Social Structures   684. Continuity and Reinvention of Traditions   975. Political Activism   122Conclusion   150Notes   163Bibliography   181Index   193