From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges -- New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States -- The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights -- The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations -- Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women -- Building community, crafting belonging -- Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American."
Summary
Laotian Daughters focuses on second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Bindi Shah's pathbreaking book charts these young women's efforts to improve the degraded conditions in their community and explores the ways their activism and political practices resist the negative stereotypes of race, class, and gender associated with their ethnic group.Using ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and archival data on their participation in Asian Youth Advocates-a youth leadership development project-Shah analyzes the teenagers' mob
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-196) and index
