{"product_id":"hmong-america-chia-youyee-vang-9780252077593","title":"Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora","description":"The first scholarly work to come from inside the Hmong community, \u003ci\u003eHmong America\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eVang 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chia Youyee Vang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252077598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252077593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011 pg. 50","brand":"Chia Youyee Vang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946370990335,"sku":"9780252077593","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_6ab8f947-cf82-488d-85be-7994e3ebc3e0.jpg?v=1681512764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hmong-america-chia-youyee-vang-9780252077593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}