Studies in Asian Americans

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1. The Evangelical Church in Boston's Chinatown

   A Discourse of Language, Gender, and Identity

   By Erika A. Muse

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Mobile Homes

   Spatial and Cultural Negotiation in Asian American Literature

   By Su-Ching Huang

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   The writers discussed in the book include Chiang Yee, Hualing Nieh, David Wong Louie, Fae Myenne Ng, John Okada, and Toshio Mori. Their publication dates span from the 1940s up to 2000....

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Taiwanese American Transnational Families

   Women and Kin Work

   By Maria W.L. Chee

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book explores the differences for participants when the wives migrate for reproductive labor in the United States. This book also adds a much needed non-working class dimension to the impact of migration on women and marital relations, particularly in the Pacific Rim: where husbands remain in...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Racial Attitudes and Asian Pacific Americans

   Demystifying the Model Minority

   By Karen Kurotsuchi Inkelas

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This study examines the complex sources and implications of the racial attitudes of Asian Pacific American (APA) college students, who, as one of the fastest growing demographics in higher education enrollments, play an increasingly significant role in campus race relations....

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Us, Hawai'i-born Japanese

   Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community

   By Gaku Kinoshita

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This is a book about the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Cultural Identity in Kindergarten

   A Study of Asian Indian Children

   By Susan Laird Mody

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   The purpose of this study is to explore play and story as forms of early childhood discourse in which cultural identity is both constructed and expressed in the Asian Indian community....

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
7. Protestant Missionaries, Asian Immigrants, and Ideologies of Race in America, 1850–1924

   By Jennifer Snow

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   This book examines how in defending Asian rights and their own version of Christian idealism against scientific racism, missionaries developed a complex theology of race that prefigured modern ideologies of multiculturalism and reached its final, belated culmination in the liberal Protestant...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels

   By Jennifer Ho

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
9. Korean American Women

   Stories of Acculturation and Changing Selves

   By Jenny Pak

   Series: Studies in Asian Americans

   Current models of acculturation in multicultural counseling literature are severely limited in describing how individuals deal with the complexity of culture change. The reasons for immigration, the historical period during which the immigration occurred, educational and socioeconomic levels,...

   Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Diaspora and Class Consciousness

    Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago

    By Shanshan Lan

    Series: Studies in Asian Americans

    This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited English...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge