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Author Aguilar-San Juan, Karin, 1962-

Title Little Saigons : staying Vietnamese in America / Karin Aguilar-San Juan
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 222 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Where does Viet Nam end and America begin? -- Producing and constructing Vietnamese America -- Q: nationality? A: Asian -- Like a dream I can never forget : remembering and commemorating the past -- What's good for business is good for the community : packaging and selling Vietnamese America -- Implications for community and place -- Conclusion: How do you stay Vietnamese in America?
Summary With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Karin Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, she elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Case studies
Vietnamese Americans -- Social conditions -- Case studies
Community life -- United States -- Case studies
Geographical perception -- United States -- Case studies
Place attachment -- United States -- Case studies
Vietnamese Americans -- California -- Orange County -- Social conditions
Vietnamese Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
Community life.
Ethnic relations.
Geographical perception.
Place attachment.
Vietnamese Americans -- Ethnic identity.
Vietnamese Americans -- Social conditions.
SUBJECT United States -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies
Orange County (Calif.) -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies
Boston (Mass.) -- Ethnic relations -- Case studies
Subject California -- Orange County.
Massachusetts -- Boston.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816670307
0816670307
0816654859
9780816654857
0816654867
9780816654864