Southeast Asian-Americans
- Southeast Asia Resource Action CenterBased in Washington D.C., a nonprofit organization that serves as an advocate for the diverse Southeast Asian American community. Its web site contains news, programs, publications and staff, and contains links to related sites. "SEARAC is the only national civil rights organization devoted to uplifting Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese American communities."
Elder Voices: Southeast Asian Families in the United States by
Forty life histories of Southeast Asian elders are gathered in this volume. Collectively they reveal personal perspectives on new immigrant family adaptation to American life at the end of the 20th century.
Call Number: E184.S695 D38 2004Publication Date: 2004 (Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press)
Emerging Voices : Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans by
...unique and compelling discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans. Unlike the earlier and larger groups of Asian immigrants to America, many of the groups discussed in this volume fled war or political persecution in their homeland. Forced to make drastic transitions in America with little physical or psychological preparation, questions of "why am I here," "who am I," and "why am I discriminated against," remain at the heart of their post-emigration experiences.
Call Number: E184.S69 E64 2008Publication Date: 2008 ( New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press)
The Filipino Americans (1763-Present): Their History, Culture, and Traditions by Call Number: E184.F4 B38 2002 +Publication Date: 2002 ( Naperville, IL : Bookhaus Pub)
Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity by
When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written, despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race and racism.
Call Number: E184.F4 F385x 1997 (Also online: click on title)Publication Date: 1997 ( Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications)
The Vietnamese American 1. 5 Generation by
Collected here are fifteen first-person narratives written by refugees who left Vietnam as children and later enrolled as students at the University of California.. (The author) has provided a comprehensive introduction to their autobiographical accounts. The volume concludes with a bibliography and videography.
Call Number: E184.V53 V55 2006 (Online also: click on title)Publication Date: 2006 ( Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press)
The American Dream in Vietnamese by
Nhi T. Lieu explores how people displaced by war reconstruct cultural identity in the aftermath of migration. Embracing American democratic ideals and consumer capitalism prior to arriving in the United States, postwar Vietnamese refugees endeavored to assimilate and live the American Dream. She claims that nowhere are these fantasies played out more vividly than in the Vietnamese American entertainment industry. Lieu examines how live music variety shows and videos, beauty pageants, and Web sites created by and for Vietnamese Americans contributed to the shaping of their cultural identity.
Call Number: E184.V53 L54 2011 (Online also; click on title)Publication Date: 2011 ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press)
Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora by
Vang depicts Hmong experiences in Asia and examines aspects of community building in America to reveal how new Hmong identities have been formed and how they have challenged popular assumptions about race and ethnicity in multicultural America. With an approach that intermingles the archival research of a historian, the personal experiences of a refugee, and the participant-observer perspectives of a community insider, Vang constructs a nuanced and complex portrait of the more than 130,000 Hmong people who came to the United States as political refugees beginning in the mid-1970s.
Call Number: E184.H55 V35 2010Publication Date: 2010 ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press)
Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow by
Chapters discussing subjectivities in the Southeast Asian migrant experience. Varieties of Homes [concepts of "home"], Varieties of Religiosities {S.E.A.'s religious subjectivities], Creativities [literature, art], Cultures [memories, visions of self, home & community], Sexualities ["queer' sexualities].
Call Number: E184.A75 S68 2015 (also online, click on title).Publication Date: 2015 (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,)
