I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience
Faderman, Lillian
I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience / Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong - Boston : Beacon Press , c1998. - xxiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262).
I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical and cultural context, and draws rich comparisons between the experience of the Hmong in the 1990s and her mother's immigration from Eastern European shtetls in the 1930s.
9780807072349
97027119
Hmong Americans----Cultural assimlation
Hmong Americans----Ethnic identity
Refugees----United States----History----20th century
E184.H55 / F33 1998
305.8959 FAD
I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience / Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong - Boston : Beacon Press , c1998. - xxiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262).
I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical and cultural context, and draws rich comparisons between the experience of the Hmong in the 1990s and her mother's immigration from Eastern European shtetls in the 1930s.
9780807072349
97027119
Hmong Americans----Cultural assimlation
Hmong Americans----Ethnic identity
Refugees----United States----History----20th century
E184.H55 / F33 1998
305.8959 FAD
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