Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans – serie
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Glass Ceilings and Asian Americans
The New Face of Workplace Barriers
Av Deborah Woo
Häftad, 2000
558 kr
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Throughout the history of the United States, fluctuations in cultural diversity, immigration, and ethnic group status have been closely linked to shifts in the economy and labor market. Over three decades after the beginning of the civil rights movement, and in the midst of significant …
In Her Mother's House
The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing
Av Wendy Ho
Häftad, 2000
600 kr
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Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her …
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Av Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu
Inbunden, 2006
1790 kr
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The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian …
Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans
Effective Activities, Strategies, and Assignments for Classrooms and Communities
Av Edith Wen-Chu Chen, Glenn Omatsu
Häftad, 2006
899 kr
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The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian …
Religions in Asian America
Building Faith Communities
Häftad, 2001
615 kr
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The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the study …
Filthy Fictions
Asian American Literature by Women
Av Monica Chiu
Inbunden, 2004
1633 kr
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Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about "Asian Americans" and "dirt" through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very …
Filthy Fictions
Asian American Literature by Women
Av Monica Chiu
Häftad, 2004
642 kr
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Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about "Asian Americans" and "dirt" through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very …
Becoming Chinese American
A History of Communities and Institutions
Av Him Mark Lai
Inbunden, 2004
1703 kr
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Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed …
Becoming Chinese American
A History of Communities and Institutions
Av Him Mark Lai
Häftad, 2004
714 kr
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Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed …
Remapping Asian American History
Av Sucheng Chan
Häftad, 2003
735 kr
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Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new frameworks such as transnationalism, …
Elder Voices
Southeast Asian Families in the United States
Inbunden, 2004
1420 kr
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More than a quarter of a century has passed since the first Southeast Asian refugees arrived in this country, but because of their age and formidable language barriers, many elders have difficulty making their voices heard. Language barriers, family privacy, and social isolation have made it almost …
Elder Voices
Southeast Asian Families in the United States
Häftad, 2004
601 kr
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More than a quarter of a century has passed since the first Southeast Asian refugees arrived in this country, but because of their age and formidable language barriers, many elders have difficulty making their voices heard. Language barriers, family privacy, and social isolation have made it almost …
Becoming Chinese American
A History of Communities and Institutions
Av Him Mark Lai
E-bok, 2004
785 kr
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Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed …
Second Generation
Ethnic Identity Among Asian Americans
E-bok, 2002
431 kr
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In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural …
Struggle for Ethnic Identity
Narratives by Asian American Professionals
Häftad, 1999
614 kr
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Dr. Pyong Gap Min and Rose Kim present a compilation of narratives on ethnic identity written by first-, 1.5-, and second-generation Asian American professionals. In an attempt to reconcile the dichotomies long associated with being both Asian and American, these narratives trace the formation of …
Asian Pacific Americans in the Workplace
Inbunden, 1997
1560 kr
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This collection of case studies incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. Through numerous interviews, Diana Wu demonstrates the unique position of Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S. workforce. Based on educational/professional statistics this group is often …
Asian Pacific Americans in the Workplace
Häftad, 1997
614 kr
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This collection of case studies incorporates many voices from the Asian Pacific American business community. Through numerous interviews, Diana Wu demonstrates the unique position of Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S. workforce. Based on educational/professional statistics this group is often …
Asian Americans
From Racial Category to Multiple Identities
Häftad, 1998
559 kr
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Does race matter? Having witnessed the civil rights movement and changes in immigration laws, we continue to ask ourselves this complex question. In the United States, racial status and identity has historically been defined by the White majority. Asian Americans: From Racial Category to Multiple …
Asian America through the Lens
History, Representations, and Identities
Av Jun Xing
Häftad, 1998
614 kr
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While some Asian American films and filmmakers are beginning to achieve acclaim in mainstream U.S. culture, neither academic scholars nor society as a whole has sufficiently taken account of the history of this rich and growing body of cinematic production. In Asian America Through the Lens, Jun …
Religions in Asian America
Building Faith Communities
E-bok, 2001
690 kr
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The flux of Asian immigration over the last 35 years has deeply altered the United States'' religious landscape. But neither social scientists nor religious scholars have fully appreciated the impact of these growing communities. And Asian immigrant religious communities are significant to the …
In Her Mother's House
The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing
Av Wendy Ho
Inbunden, 2000
1279 kr
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Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourses of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to specific spoken stories of mothers and daughters. Against reductive tendencies of scholarship, she places her own conversations with her …
Anti-Asian Violence in North America
Asian American and Asian Canadian Reflections on Hate, Healing and Resistance
Av Patricia Wong Hall, Victor M. Hwang
Häftad, 2001
776 kr
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Violent and sometimes fatal acts of racial hatred are drawing increasing attention around the nation. For the first time, voices of Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have been brought together to discuss the multidimensional impact of racial crime in their lives and through their work as …
Chinese in America
A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium
Inbunden, 2002
1475 kr
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This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Volume editor Cassel relates how the well-publicized accusations of espionage against scientist Wen Ho Lee at the nuclear facility at Los Alamos can be …
Chinese in America
A History from Gold Mountain to the New Millennium
Häftad, 2002
628 kr
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This new collection of essays demonstrates how a politics of polarity have defined the 150-year experience of Chinese immigration in America. Chinese-Americans have been courted as 'model workers' by American business, but also continue to be perceived as perpetual foreigners. The contributors …
Religions in Asian America
Building Faith Communities
Inbunden, 2001
1936 kr
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Religions in Asian America provides a comprehensive overview of the religious practices of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian Americans. How these new communities work through issues of gender, race, transnationalism, income disparities and social …
Second Generation
Ethnic Identity among Asian Americans
Inbunden, 2002
1345 kr
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In a series of essays based on original ethnographic research, Pyong Gap Min and his contributors examine the unique identity issues for second generation ethnic Asians, from Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese descent. They describe how societal expectations and structural …
