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I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience / Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong

By:

Faderman, Lillian

Contributor(s):

Xiong, Ghia

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press , c1998.Description: xxiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780807072349

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.8959 FAD

LOC classification:

E184.H55 F33 1998

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	305.8959 FAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		022586

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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.

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