Emerging Voices

Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans

Edited by Huping Ling

Published by: Rutgers University Press

Subjects:American Studies, Asian American Studies

344 Pages, 6.1 x 9.3 in

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Published: December 30, 2008

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While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. As the field grows, there is a pressing need to understand the smaller and more recent immigrant communities. Emerging Voices fills this gap with its 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 whom made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities, 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.

Bringing together eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, this collection considers a wide range of themes, including assimilation and adaptation, immigration patterns, community, education, ethnicity, economics, family, gender, marriage, religion, sexuality, and work.

Introduction: emerging voices of underrepresented Asian Americans / Huping Ling
From Laos to America: the Hmong community in the United States / Franklin Ng
Cultural transition and adjustment: the experiences of the Mong in the United States / Paoze Thao
The role of ethnic leaders in the refugee community: a case study of the lowland Lao in the American midwest / Pamela A. De Voe
"Displaced people" adjusting to new cultural vocabulary: Tibetan immigrants in North America / Yosay Wandi
Unity and diversity among Indonesian migrants to the United States / Clark E. Cunningham
Dynamics, intricacy, and multiplicity of Romani identity in the United States / Suzuko Morikawa
Community identity of Kashmiri Hindus in the United States / Haley Duschinski
Thai Americans: performing gender / Jiemin Bao
The gender of practice: some findings among Thai Buddhist women in Northern California / Todd LeRoy Perreira
Women of the temple: Burmese immigrants, gender, and Buddhism in a U.S. frame / Tamara C. Ho
Adaptation of Burmese monastic and domestic religious practices in the San Francisco Bay area / Joseph Cheah
Parent-child conflict within the Mong families / Chimeng Yang
Hmong American contemporary experience / Kou Yang

HUPING LING is a professor of history at Truman State University and the author of Chinese St. Louis: From Enclave to Cultural Community.

This book, which begins to understand the experiences of 'underrepresented' minorities, is long overdue. Emerging Voices meets an important need and fills a significant gap in the field of Asian American studies.
~Yong Chen, author of Chinese San Francisco 1850-1943: A Trans-Pacific Community

A unique project that broadens our understanding of diversity and promises to bring new Asian American groups into focus in a valuable way.
~George Anthony Peffer, editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies

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