Description |
vii, 301 p. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee -- Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee -- Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong -- Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai -- On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser -- In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious -- Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller -- From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais -- Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson -- Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira -- Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee -- Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann -- The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Asians -- America -- History.
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Asians -- America -- Ethnic identity.
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Asians -- Migrations.
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Refugees -- America -- History.
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Immigrants -- America -- History.
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Transnationalism.
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America -- Emigration and immigration.
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Asia -- Emigration and immigration.
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America -- Ethnic relations.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
Anderson, Wanni W. (Wanni Wibulswasdi), 1937-
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Lee, Robert G., 1947-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Added Title |
Asians in the Americas |
ISBN |
0813536103 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0813536111 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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