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Author: Jeffery L. MacDonald
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780815329947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Publisher: Cambria Press
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Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 1621969975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan Matoba Adler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-24
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1317732944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis postmodern feminist study explores changes in Japanese American women's perspectives on child rearing, education, and ethnicity across three generations-Nisei (second), Sansei (third), and Yonsei (fourth). Shifts in socio-political and cultural milieu have influenced the construction of racial and ethnic identities; Nisei women survived internment before relocating to the midwest, Sansei women grew up in white suburban communities, while Yonsei women grew up in a culture increasingly attuned toward multiculturalism. In contrast to the historical focus on Japanese American communities in California and Hawaii, this study explores the transformation of ethnic culture in the midwest. Midwestern Japanese American women found themselves removed from large ethnic communities, and the development of their identities and culture provides valuable insight into the experience of a group of Asian minorities in the heartland. The book explores central issues in studies of Japanese culture, the Japanese sense of self, and the Japanese family, including amae (mother-child dependency relationship), gambare (perseverance), and gaman (endurance).
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252030093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Defense of Asian American Studies offers fascinating tales from the trenches on the origins and evolution of the field of Asian American studies, as told by one of its founders and most highly regarded scholars. Wielding intellectual energy, critical acumen, and a sly sense of humor, Sucheng Chan discusses her experiences on three campuses within the University of California system as Asian American studies was first developed--in response to vehement student demand--under the rubric of ethnic studies. Chan speaks by turns as an advocate and an administrator striving to secure a place for Asian American studies; as a teacher working to give Asian American students a voice and white students a perspective on race and racism; and as a scholar and researcher still asking her own questions. The essays span three decades and close with a piece on the new challenges facing Asian American studies. Eloquently documenting a field of endeavor in which scholarship and identity define and strengthen each other, In Defense of Asian American Studies combines analysis, personal experience, and indispensable practical advice for those engaged in building and sustaining Asian American studies programs.
Author: Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0738595861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the 19th and up to the mid-20th centuries, immigrants from China, Japan, Korea, India, and the Philippines came to America through San Francisco. The end of the decades-long Vietnam War changed the modern Asian American demographics of the city, this time with refugees coming from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The San Francisco Bay Area remains a hub for Laotian American culture, history, and community resources, and it has been a center for Laotian American advancement since the early 1980s. After calling the United States home for more than 30 years and battling the scars of war, a new Laotian American society is seeking meaning from its past while moving forward with hopes of a better future as Americans.
Author: Linda Trinh Võ
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781439901243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce thought of in terms of geographically bounded spaces, Asian America has undergone profound changes as a result of post-1965 immigration as well as the growth and reshaping of established communities. This collection of original essays demonstrates that conventional notions of community, of ethnic enclaves determined by exclusion and ghettoization, now have limited use in explaining the dynamic processes of contemporary community formation.Writing from a variety of perspectives, these contributors expand the concept of community to include sites not necessarily bounded by space; formations around gender, class, sexuality, and generation reveal new processes as well as the demographic diversity of today's Asian American population. The case studies gathered here speak to the fluidity of these communities and to the need for new analytic approaches to account for the similarities and differences between them. Taken together, these essays forcefully argue that it is time to replace the outworn concept of a monolithic Asian America.
Author: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0691220557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction."--Publisher's description.
Author: Michael Angelo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 113652763X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Thomas Mullaney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2012-02-15
Total Pages: 419
ISBN-13: 0520289757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstituting over ninety percent of China's population, Han is not only the largest ethnonational group in that country but also one of the largest categories of human identity in world history. In this pathbreaking volume, a multidisciplinary group of scholars examine this ambiguous identity, one that shares features with, but cannot be subsumed under, existing notions of ethnicity, culture, race, nationality, and civilization.
