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Hmong America

Chia Youyee Vang
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ethnic celebrations
ethnicity
ethnography
faith-based traditions
Hmong
Hmong Americas
Hmong communities
Hmong ethnography
Hmong history
Hmong in Minneapolis
Hmong in St. Paul
Hmong migration
identity
immigrant communities
Immigrant history
immigration
Laos
Laotians
migrants
migration
minorities
minority identity
multicultural America
multiculturalism
participant observation
political activism
political mobilization
political organization
political refugees
race relations
refugee resettlement
refugees
traditions
trans-Pacific migration

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252035685
  • Weight: 513g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Dec 2010
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, Hmong America documents Chia Youyee Vang's own migration from Laos to Minnesota at age nine and the transformations she has witnessed in Hmong communities throughout the migration and settlement processes.

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. Combining participant observation and archival research with personal experience, 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. Her critique of previous representations of the Hmong community provides the sociological underpinnings for a bold reassessment of Hmong history in the greater context of globalization. This new understanding redefines concepts of Hmong homogeneity and characterizes ordinary Hmong migrants not as passive victims but as dynamic actors who have exercised much power over their political and social destinies.
About Chia Youyee Vang
Chia Youyee Vang is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Fly Until You Die: An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War and Hmong in Minnesota.

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