A Free People
A Free People

Author: David L. Moore

Publisher: Master Communications, Inc.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1888194421

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An excellent collection of stories, writings and photographs by Hmong students in Minnesota as part of the Hmong Youth Cultural Awareness Project with grants from the the Minneapolis Public Schools. A minority in every country where they have lived, they value their independence and self-sufficiency. With help of Dave Moore and John Mundahl, Hmong students interviewed their elders in the community to capture the history and culture of their people. This book reunites the Hmong youth, who have become alienated from their culture in living in the United States, to Hmong culture and inspire self-esteem as well as helping others learn about this amazing culture.

A Free People
A Free People

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Published: 1994

Total Pages: 146

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Hmong students in Minneapolis interviewed the elders and parents in their community to learn of the Hmong culture, the war and the exodus, and life in America.

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Author: Anne Fadiman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0374533407

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Winner 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.

Tangled Threads
Tangled Threads

Author: Pegi Deitz Shea

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2003-09-22

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0547533608

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For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only remaining relatives, Mai’s uncle and his family. They will discover the privileges of their new life: medical care, abundant food, and an apartment all their own. But Mai will also feel the pressures of life as a teenager. Her cousins, now known as Heather and Lisa, try to help Mai look less like a refugee, but following them means disobeying Grandma and Uncle. From showers and smoke alarms to shopping, dating, and her family’s new religion, Mai finds life in America complicated and confusing. Ultimately, she will have to reconcile the old ways with the new, and decide for herself the kind of woman she wants to be. This archetypal immigrant story introduces readers to the fascinating Hmong culture and offers a unique outsider’s perspective on our own.

Fight the Tower
Fight the Tower

Author: Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-10-11

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1978806361

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Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.