Studies in Asian Americans – serie
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55 produkter
Politicizing Asian American Literature
Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
Häftad, 2011
912 kr
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This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’ …
Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
Häftad, 2012
791 kr
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This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant …
Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels
Av Jennifer Ho
Häftad, 2012
943 kr
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This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how …
Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown
A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning …
Cultural Identity in Kindergarten
A Study of Asian Indian Children
Häftad, 2012
797 kr
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The purpose of this study is to explore play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community.
Korean American Women
Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves
Av Jenny Pak
Häftad, 2012
530 kr
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Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, …
Mobile Homes
Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature
Häftad, 2013
826 kr
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The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000.
Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans
Demystifying the Model Minority
Häftad, 2013
726 kr
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This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations.
Taiwanese American Transnational Families
Women and Kin Work
Häftad, 2013
400 kr
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This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in …
Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese
Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
Häftad, 2012
820 kr
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This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i.
Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
Av Shanshan Lan
Häftad, 2013
791 kr
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This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English …
Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race
The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School
Häftad, 2009
881 kr
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Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in San Francisco. The book analyzes the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the …
Global Spaces of Chinese Culture
Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany
Häftad, 2009
907 kr
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This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. It not only compares the local conditions of the Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the Chinese …
Modeling Minority Women
Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction
Häftad, 2010
909 kr
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This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing …
Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
Av Shanshan Lan
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English …
Between the Home and the Diaspora
The Politics of Theorizing Filipino and Filipino American Identities
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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Arguing for the contingent nature of theories and the need for nuanced perspectives in their invocation across politically-uneven contexts, this study models a way of productively engaging the current debates between deconstructive cultural criticism and the project of indigenization as these are …
Hmong American Concepts of Health
Av Dia Cha
Inbunden, 2003
3055 kr
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America's healthcare system in the twenty-first century faces a variety of pressures and challenges, not the least of which is that posed by the increasingly multicultural nature of American society itself. Large numbers among the Hmong, immigrants from the landlocked Asian nation of Laos, continue …
Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924
Inbunden, 2006
2736 kr
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This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant …
Politicizing Asian American Literature
Towards a Critical Multiculturalism
Inbunden, 2007
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines U.S. multiculturalism from the perspective of Asian American writings, drawing contrasts between politically acquiescent multiculturalism and politically conscious multiculturalism. Chae discusses the works of writers who have highlighted a critical awareness of Asian Americans’ …
Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels
Av Jennifer Ho
Inbunden, 2004
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how …
Cultural Identity in Kindergarten
A Study of Asian Indian Children
Inbunden, 2004
2433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The purpose of this study is to explore play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community.
Modeling Minority Women
Heroines in African and Asian American Fiction
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This powerful study reconceptualizes ideas of ethnic literature while investigating the construction of ethnic heroines, shifting the focus away from cultural politics and considering instead narrative or poetic qualities which involve surprising relationships between Anglo-American women's writing …
Taiwanese American Transnational Families
Women and Kin Work
Inbunden, 2005
762 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in …
Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown
A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The purpose of this book is to provide valuable anthropological data on the identity construction of a rapidly growing Chinese Christian population in the United States. As more and more Chinese of different generations and varying cultural backgrounds practice evangelical Christianity, the meaning …
Mobile Homes
Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature
Inbunden, 2006
2879 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000.
Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race
The Dismantling of Affirmative Action at an Elite Public High School
Inbunden, 2006
2433 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Asian Americans and the Shifting Politics of Race examines the political and discursive struggles around the dismantling of race-based admissions policies in an elite public high school in San Francisco. The book analyzes the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in and the media's depiction of the …
Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese
Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community
Inbunden, 2006
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i.
Korean American Women
Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves
Av Jenny Pak
Inbunden, 2006
1517 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels, …
Global Spaces of Chinese Culture
Diasporic Chinese Communities in the United States and Germany
Inbunden, 2006
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is an exploration of how Chinese communites in the United States and Germany create and disseminate a sense of diasporic Chinese identity. It not only compares the local conditions of the Chinese communities in the two locations, but also moves to a global dimension to track the Chinese …
Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans
Demystifying the Model Minority
Inbunden, 2006
2659 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations.
