LEADER 05248nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910817583003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-280-46289-2 010 $a9786610462896 010 $a0-8135-3751-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813537511 035 $a(CKB)1000000000246482 035 $a(EBL)977460 035 $a(OCoLC)64187756 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11146865 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10030041 035 $a(PQKB)11218307 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21382 035 $a(DE-B1597)526232 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813537511 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10114307 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL46289 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977460 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000246482 100 $a20041101d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aDisplacements and diasporas $eAsians in the Americas /$fedited by Wanni W. Anderson, Robert G. Lee 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 301 pages) 311 $a0-8135-3611-1 311 $a0-8135-3610-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tAsian American displacements /$rWanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee --$tDiaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates /$rChristopher Lee --$tDiasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities /$rK. Scott Wong --$tImages of the Chinese in West Indian history /$rWalton Look Lai --$tOn coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean /$rEvelyn Hu-DeHart --$tFrom Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil /$rJeffrey Lesser --$tIn the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements /$rBernard Scott Lucious --$tLived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference /$rNina Glick Schiller --$tFrom refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada /$rLouis-Jacques Dorais --$tBetween necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women /$rWanni W. Anderson --$tMixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture /$rSunaina Maira --$tCrossing borders of disciplines and departments /$rRobert G. Lee --$tAnthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds /$rNancy Abelmann --$tThe ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr. 330 $aAsians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean. With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalization. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese laborers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture. Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalized racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching. 517 3 $aAsians in the Americas 606 $aAsians$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aAsians$zAmerica$xEthnic identity 606 $aAsians$xMigrations 606 $aRefugees$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aImmigrants$zAmerica$xHistory 606 $aTransnationalism 607 $aAmerica$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aAsia$xEmigration and immigration 607 $aAmerica$xEthnic relations 615 0$aAsians$xHistory. 615 0$aAsians$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aAsians$xMigrations. 615 0$aRefugees$xHistory. 615 0$aImmigrants$xHistory. 615 0$aTransnationalism. 676 $a305.895/07 701 $aAnderson$b Wanni W$g(Wanni Wibulswasdi),$f1937-$01642952 701 $aLee$b Robert G.$f1947-$01006601 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817583003321 996 $aDisplacements and diasporas$93987909 997 $aUNINA