wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States
ISBN: 9780252071010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities - Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution...
Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities - Long Beach, Philade...
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88,48 |
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Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America
ISBN: 9781566391634 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity. From Jou Yee Xiong's Life Story: This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-... |
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124,94 |
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Remapping Asian American History
ISBN: 9780759104808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge about particular Asian ethnic groups. Edited by noted scholar Sucheng Chan, the essays in this volume uses new frameworks such as transnationalism, the political contexts of international migrations, and a multipolar approach to the study of contemporary U.S. race relations. These concerns, often ignored in earlier studies that focused on social and economic aspects of Asian American communities, challenge some long-held assumptions about Asian...
Remapping Asian American History exemplifies the emerging trends in the writing of Asian American history, and fills substantive gaps in our knowledge...
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342,29 |
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The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation: Stories of War, Revolution, Flight and New Beginnings
ISBN: 9781592135011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fifteen stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a history of Vietnam and the international politics of refugee resettlement. This work also presents the history of Vietnam.
Fifteen stories told by young Vietnamese who came to the US after the fall of Saigon and during the "boat people" exodus are contextualized within a h...
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130,15 |
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Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States
ISBN: 9780252071799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A multidisciplinary study of why and how Cambodians have come to the US and how they have fared since. Companion to Chan / Not Just Vicitms, UIP 2003, CI 0-252-02799-X (sold 200 copies) Pub date 3/2003 Pb 0-252-07101-8 (sold 350 copies) In this clear, comprehensive, and unflinching study, Sucheng Chan invites us to follow the saga of Cambodian refugees striving to distance themselves from a series of cataclysmic events in their homeland. Survivors tracks not only the Cambodians' flight for life lives but also their battle for self-definition in new American surroundings. Unparalleled in...
A multidisciplinary study of why and how Cambodians have come to the US and how they have fared since. Companion to Chan / Not Just Vicitms, UIP 2003,...
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124,94 |
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Chinese American Transnationalism: The Flow of People, Resources
ISBN: 9781592134359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant flow of people, economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book describes the changing patterns of Chinese immigration and strategies for circumventing exclusion laws.
Considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant flow of pe...
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109,32 |
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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
ISBN: 9780295746722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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124,73 |
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Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
ISBN: 9780295746739 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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562,20 |