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Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0374533407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1541538366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.
Author: Chia Youyee Vang
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0252077598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unprecedented inside view of the Hmong experience in America.
Author: Jane Hamilton-Merritt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13: 9780253207562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.
Author: Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1566892627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang’s family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice. Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.
Author: Linda a Gerdner
Publisher:
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781936955121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Demystifying Hmong Shamanism" is the first book to provide a comprehensive discussion of shamanism as practiced and experienced by Hmong Americans. A broad range of case examples are discussed that not only represent the initiation and maintenance of the shaman's practice, but also a variety of ceremonies performed to promote spiritual health and well-being across the life span. Case examples are described in rich detail and presented within a real-life context. Shamanism as practiced in the United States remains consistent with that practiced in their homeland of Laos, with minor adaptations as described throughout the text. The book is unique in that it addresses a traditional form of shamanism that continues to be practiced widely within Hmong American communities across the United States. "Demystifying Hmong Shamanism" provides a comprehensive exploration of the practice and use of shamanism by Hmong Americans that incorporates a first-hand perspective from recipients, family members, shamans, and the shaman assistants. "Demystifying Hmong Shamanism" is the result of over ten years of research and close collaboration with Hmong shamans and other members of the Hmong American community. As practicing Hmong shamans advance in age, they have identified the importance of documenting their legacy for future generations. Their cooperation and collaboration with Dr. Gerdner has provided a unique opportunity for the documentation and recording of ceremonies normally restricted to family members. The shamanic ceremonies and practices reported here reflect the diversity with regard to purpose and performance found within the Hmong shamanic world. Recorded and presented for the first time, "Demystifying Hmong Shamanism" is a landmark publication in the field of Hmong and Hmong American studies, shamanism, and religion.
Author: Pang Xiong
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780983978404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis simple book introduces readers to the many looks of the Hmong people, while building early reading concepts. The repetition and simplicity of this book allow early readers to succeed. Children can practice directionality and 1-1 correspondence while gaining confidence with their reading. Hmong students will also be able to validate their cultures and build personal connections with the pictures.
Author: Kou Yang
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1498546463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled into the United States. He provides detailed research on the adaptation of Hmong Americans to their new lives in the United States, facing discrimination and prejudice, and the advancement of Hmong Americans over the past 40 years. He presents the Hmong American community as an uprooted refugee community that grew from a small population in 1975 to more than 300,000 by the year 2015; spreading to all 50 states while becoming a diverse and complex American ethnic community. To get better insight into their diversity, complexity, and adaptation to different localities, Kou Yang uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past 4 decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Readers of this book will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, complex and diverse experience of the Hmong American community. They will also obtain insight into the overall experience of the Hmong, an ethnic people of Diaspora, found in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe. They are like bristle-cone pines on the rock that have been exposed to all types of weather, climate and conditions, but they won't die.
Author: Paul Hillmer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780873517263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on more than 200 interviews during 2002-2009 under the auspices of the Hmong Oral History Project. Several full-text interviews are available on the project's website.
Author: Sami Scripter
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1452914516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSimple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicated not by exact measurements but by taste and experimentationfor every Hmong recipe, there are as many variations as there are Hmong cooksand often served to large, communal groups. Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang have gathered more than 100 recipes, illustrated them with color photos of completed dishes, and provided descriptions of unusual ingredients and cooking techniques.
