Title Voices of the heart : Asian American women on immigration, work, and family / Huping Ling

Published [Kirksville, Mo.] : Truman State University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 385 pages) : illustrations Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A historical review and synthesis of Asian American women -- pt. 1. Chinese -- 1. The first America-born women -- 2. Foreign-born women in professional fields -- 3. Interracial marriage -- 4. Attaining education -- pt. 2. Filipinas -- 5. Immigrant women at work -- 6. Filipinas in the health industry -- 7. The younger generation : defining identity -- 8. Interracial marriage -- pt. 3. Japanese -- 9. The concentration camp experience -- 10. Interracial marriage and immigrant women in professional fields -- 11. Attaining education -- pt. 4. Koreans -- 12. Adoptees -- 13. Life of immigrant women -- 14. Interracial marriage -- 15. Generational conflict -- pt. 5. Asian Indians and Pakistanis -- 16. At home and preserving traditions -- 17. Foreign-born women in professional fields -- 18. Factory work and the hotel business -- 19. Attaining education -- pt. 6. Vietnamese, Laotians, Hmong, and Thai -- 20. The refugee experience -- 21. Vietnamese adoptees -- 22. Interracial marriage -- 23. Generational and cultural conflict -- The Asian American mosaic -- About the author -- Works cited -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Asian American women -- Middle West -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes Asian American women -- Middle West -- Biography -- Anecdotes Women immigrants -- Middle West -- Biography -- Anecdotes Asian American women -- Employment -- Middle West -- Anecdotes Acculturation -- Middle West -- Anecdotes Families -- Middle West -- Anecdotes Oral history. oral histories (literary works) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. Acculturation Asian American women Asian American women -- Employment Asian American women -- Social conditions Ethnic relations Families Oral history Social conditions Women immigrants Soziale Situation Asiatin Einwanderin SUBJECT Middle West -- Ethnic relations -- Anecdotes Middle West -- Biography -- Anecdotes Middle West -- Social conditions -- Anecdotes Subject Middle West Mittlerer Westen Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Anecdotes Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781935503897 1935503898

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