Displacements and diasporas : Asians in the Americas / edited by Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee.

Other author Anderson, Wanni W. (Wanni Wibulswasdi), 1937-
Other author Lee, Robert G., 1947-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2005.
Descriptionvii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee -- Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee -- Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong -- Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai -- On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as huagong (laborers) and huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser -- In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious -- Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller -- From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais -- Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson -- Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira -- Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee -- Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann -- The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004025322
ISBN0813536103 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0813536111 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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