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BOOK (PRINT)
Title Contemporary Asian American communities : intersections and divergences / edited by Linda Trinh Võ and Rick Bonus
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002
Location Call number ITEM STATUS
 MAIN STACKS  E184.O6 C666 2002  Nearby on shelf  AVAILABLE
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Description x, 254 pages ; 26 cm
Series Asian American history and culture
Asian American history and culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Asian Americans -- Social conditions
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
Ethnic neighborhoods -- United States
Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Academic Subj. History (United States)
Asian Pacific American Studies
Alternate Author Võ, Linda Trinh, 1964-
Bonus, Rick, 1962-
ISBN 1566399378 alkaline paper
1566399386 paperback alkaline paper
Table of Contents
 Acknowledgments 
 Introduction: On Intersections and Divergences / Rick Bonus, Linda Trinh Vo1
1Asian and Latino Immigration and the Revitalization of Sunset Park, Brooklyn / Tarry Hum27
2Politics and Poetics of a Taiwanese Chinese American Identity / Eileen Chia-Ching Fung45
3Southeast Asians in the House: Multiple Layers of Identity / Russell Jeung60
4Gay Asian Men in Los Angeles Before the 1980s / Eric C. Wat75
5Pilipino ka ba? Internet Discussions in the Filipino Community / Emily Noelle Ignacio89
6Pacific Islander Americans and Asian American Identity / Debbie Hippolite Wright, Paul Spickard105
7"Eligible" to Be Japanese American: Multiraciality in Basketball Leagues and Beauty Pageants / Rebecca Chiyoko King120
8Young Asian American Professionals in Los Angeles: A Community in Transition / Pensri Ho134
9Internalized Stereotypes and Shame: The Struggles of 1.5-Generation Korean Americans in Hawai'i / Mary Yu Danico147
10Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurial Children / Lisa Sun-Hee Park161
11Imagining Panethnic Community and Performing Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book / Karen Har-Yen Chow178
12Addressing Domestic Violence and the South Asian Community in the United States / Margaret Abraham191
13Asian Pacific Americans and Urban Politics / Edward J. W. Park202
14Political and Philanthropic Contexts for Incorporating Asian American Communities / Jiannbin Lee Shiao216
15How Public-Policy Reforms Shape, and Reveal the Shape of, Asian America / Andrew Leong229
 About the Contributors249
 Index251



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