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Author : Jennifer Anne Fendya
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Being a Hmong Woman in America written by Jennifer Anne Fendya and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pa Der Vang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681341507
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Staring Down the Tiger written by Pa Der Vang and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivating stories of the courage, resilience, and everyday brilliance of Hmong American women
Author : Vincent K. Her
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873518551
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Hmong and American written by Vincent K. Her and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world, the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, members of the first generation may yearn for the past as they watch their children and grandchildren find their way in the dominant culture of their new home. For Hmong people born and educated in the United States, a definition of self often includes traditional practices and tight-knit family groups but also a distinctly Americanized point of view. How do Hmong Americans negotiate the expectations of these two very different cultures? This book contains a series of essays featuring a range of writing styles, leading scholars, educators, artists, and community activists who explore themes of history, culture, gender, class, family, and sexual orientation, weaving their own stories into depictions of a Hmong American community where people continue to develop complex identities that are collectively shared but deeply personal as they help to redefine the multicultural America of today.
Author : Chia Youyee Vang
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950059
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Claiming Place written by Chia Youyee Vang and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women’s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women’s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination both in the United States and in Southeast Asia. Claiming Place expands knowledge about the Hmong lived reality while contributing to broader conversations on sexuality, diaspora, and agency. While these essays center on Hmong experiences, activism, and popular representations, they also underscore the complex gender dynamics between women and men and address the wider concerns of gendered status of the Hmong in historical and contemporary contexts, including deeply embedded notions around issues of masculinity. Organized to highlight themes of history, memory, war, migration, sexuality, selfhood, and belonging, this book moves beyond a critique of Hmong patriarchy to argue that Hmong women have been and continue to be active agents not only in challenging oppressive societal practices within hierarchies of power but also in creating alternative forms of belonging. Contributors: Geraldine Craig, Kansas State U; Leena N. Her, Santa Rosa Junior College; Julie Keown-Bomar, U of Wisconsin–Extension; Mai Na M. Lee, U of Minnesota; Prasit Leepreecha, Chiang Mai U; Aline Lo, Allegheny College; Kong Pha; Louisa Schein, Rutgers U; Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, U of Connecticut; Bruce Thao; Ka Vang, U of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.
Author : Anne Fadiman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533407
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down written by Anne Fadiman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author : Ka Vang
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518810
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Good Hmong Girl Eats Raw Laab written by Ka Vang and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mai Neng Moua
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681340364
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Bride Price written by Mai Neng Moua and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A principled decision brings unexpected consequences for a Hmong American woman struggling to reconcile the two cultures--and to be a good daughter while breaking the rules.
Author : Nichol Bryan
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1617849413
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Hmong Americans written by Nichol Bryan and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the life and culture of Hmong Americans and presents some information on the history of the Hmong in Laos. Includes a recipe for egg rolls.
Author : Mai Neng Moua
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873514378
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Bamboo Among the Oaks written by Mai Neng Moua and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can be found in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, and Colorado, and St. Paul boasts the largest concentration of Hmong residents of any city in the world. In this groundbreaking anthology, first-and second-generation Hmong Americans--the first to write creatively in English--share their perspectives on being Hmong in America. In stories, poetry, essays, and drama, these writers address the common challenges of immigrants adapting to a new homeland: preserving ethnic identity and traditions, assimilating to and battling with the dominant culture, negotiating generational conflicts exacerbated by the clash of cultures, and developing new identities in multiracial America. Many pieces examine Hmong history and culture and the authors' experiences as Americans. Others comment on issues significant to the community: the role of women in a traditionally patriarchal culture, the effects of violence and abuse, the stories of Hmong military action in Laos during the Vietnam War. These writers don't pretend to provide a single story of the Hmong; instead, a multitude of voices emerge, some wrapped up in the past, others looking toward the future, where the notion of "Hmong American" continues to evolve. In her introduction, editor Mai Neng Moua describes her bewilderment when she realized that anthologies of Asian American literature rarely contained even one selection by a Hmong American. In 1994, she launched a Hmong literary journal, Paj Ntaub Voice, and in the first issue asked her readers "Where are the Hmong American voices?" Now this collection--containing selections from the journal as well as new submissions--offers a chorus of voices from a vibrant and creative community of Hmong American writers from across the United States.
Author : Pegi Deitz Shea
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547533608
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Tangled Threads written by Pegi Deitz Shea and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2003-09-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only remaining relatives, Mai’s uncle and his family. They will discover the privileges of their new life: medical care, abundant food, and an apartment all their own. But Mai will also feel the pressures of life as a teenager. Her cousins, now known as Heather and Lisa, try to help Mai look less like a refugee, but following them means disobeying Grandma and Uncle. From showers and smoke alarms to shopping, dating, and her family’s new religion, Mai finds life in America complicated and confusing. Ultimately, she will have to reconcile the old ways with the new, and decide for herself the kind of woman she wants to be. This archetypal immigrant story introduces readers to the fascinating Hmong culture and offers a unique outsider’s perspective on our own.
Author : Sue Murphy Mote
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616175
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Hmong and American written by Sue Murphy Mote and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an ex-military officer, a reformed gang member, a doctor, and a woman who was snatched from her mountain village at the age of eight, deposited in Laos's French culture and finally returned to Laos years later, tell their stories of struggling with American life while preserving the values of their own ancient culture. The author also considers the 5,000 years of Hmong history and its lasting influence.
Author : Sucheng Chan
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439901392
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Hmong Means Free written by Sucheng Chan and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of Hmong refugees expose the trauma and the joy of their lives.
Author : Nancy Donnelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women written by Nancy Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kao Kalia Yang
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566892627
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Latehomecomer written by Kao Kalia Yang and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang’s family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice. Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.
Author : Dia Cha
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415944953
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (449 download)
Download or read book Hmong American Concepts of Health, Healing, and Conventional Medicine written by Dia Cha and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's healthcare system in the twenty-first century faces a variety of pressures and challenges, not the least of which is that posed by the increasingly multicultural nature of American society itself. Large numbers among the Hmong, immigrants from the landlocked Asian nation of Laos, continue to prefer their own ancient medical traditions. That these Hmong Americans should continue to adhere to a tradition of folk medicine, rather than embrace the modern healthcare system of America, poses questions that must be answered. This book takes up the task of examining Hmong American concepts of health, illness and healing, and looks at the Hmong American experience with conventional medicine. In so doing, it identifies factors that either obstruct or enable healthcare delivery to the Hmong, specifically a target sample of Hmong Americans resident in Colorado. Drawing upon scientific methods of data collection, the research reveals attitudes currently held by a group of American citizens toward health and medicine which run the gamut from the very modern to those which have prevailed in the highlands of Southeast Asia for centuries.
Author : Christa Xiong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781522088431
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Portraits of Hmong Women written by Christa Xiong and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pages that follow, rich in descriptive detail, are the fruits of their labor. The women in this survey vary in age, education and level of literacy of American culture. Some were born in Laos and came here as adults. Others arrived as children or in their teens and have been educated as Americans. Portrait of Hmong Women conveys their stories. It brings to light their voices, thoughts and perspectives. In doing so, it shows how the lives of Hmong women are complicated by a multitude of social and cultural factors, including difficult choices they must regularly confront. We will learn that some of those choices were made by them; others have been made for them. Each personal narrative is thus about life in a community that is bounded by strong traditions on the one hand and informed by the need to exercise some autonomy within the spaces of those traditions on the other.
Author : Kou Yang
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498546463
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Making of Hmong America written by Kou Yang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled into the United States. He provides detailed research on the adaptation of Hmong Americans to their new lives in the United States, facing discrimination and prejudice, and the advancement of Hmong Americans over the past 40 years. He presents the Hmong American community as an uprooted refugee community that grew from a small population in 1975 to more than 300,000 by the year 2015; spreading to all 50 states while becoming a diverse and complex American ethnic community. To get better insight into their diversity, complexity, and adaptation to different localities, Kou Yang uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past 4 decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Readers of this book will gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, complex and diverse experience of the Hmong American community. They will also obtain insight into the overall experience of the Hmong, an ethnic people of Diaspora, found in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Europe. They are like bristle-cone pines on the rock that have been exposed to all types of weather, climate and conditions, but they won't die.
