Contemporary Asian American Communities [[electronic resource] ] : Intersections And Divergences

• Autore: Vo Linda Trinh
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.895073
• Soggetto topico: Asian Americans; Ethnic identity; Social conditions; United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BonusRick
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: ON INTERSECTIONS AND DIVERGENCES; Part I Communities in Transition: Spaces and Practices; 1. ASIAN AND LATINO IMMIGRATION AND THE REVITALIZATION OF SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN; 2. THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF A TAIWANESE CHINESE AMERICAN IDENTITY; 3. SOUTHEAST ASIANS IN THE HOUSE: MULTIPLE LAYERS OF IDENTITY; 4. GAY ASIAN MEN IN LOS ANGELES BEFORE THE 1980's; 5. Pilipino ka ba? INTERNET DISCUSSIONS IN THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY; Part II Communities in Transformation: Identities and Generations; 6. PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICANS AND ASIAN AMERICAN IDENTITY ; 7. ""ELIGIBLE"" TO BE JAPANESE AMERICAN: MULTIRACIALITY IN BASKETBALL LEAGUES AND BEAUTY PAGEANTS8. YOUNG ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS IN LOS ANGELES: A COMMUNITY IN TRANSITION; 9. INTERNALIZED STEREOTYPES AND SHAME: THE STRUGGLES OF 1.5-GENERATION KOREAN AMERICANS IN HAWAI'I; 10. ASIAN IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURIAL CHILDREN; Part III Communities of Alternatives: Representations and Politics; 11. IMAGINING PANETHNIC COMMUNITY AND PERFORMING IDENTITY IN MAXINE HONG KINGSTON'S Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book; 12. ADDRESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED STATES ; 13. ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND URBAN POLITICS14. THE POLITICAL AND PHILANTHROPIC CONTEXTS FOR INCORPORATING ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES; 15. HOW PUBLIC-POLICY REFORMS SHAPE, AND REVEAL THE SHAPE OF, ASIAN AMERICA; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Once 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemporary Asian American Communities
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455509403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asian American History & Cultu