Laotian daughters : working toward community, belonging, and environmental justice / Bindi V. Shah.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shah, Bindi V., 1960-

Series:

Asian American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laotian Americans--California--Contra Costa County.

Laotian Americans.

Teenage girls--California--Contra Costa County.

Teenage girls.

Children of immigrants--California--Contra Costa County.

Children of immigrants.

Environmental justice--California--Contra Costa County.

Environmental justice.

Contra Costa County (Calif.)--Race relations--Case studies.

Contra Costa County (Calif.).

Asian Pacific Environmental Network.

California--Contra Costa County.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Laotian Daughters focuses on second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Bindi Shah's pathbreaking book charts these young women's efforts to improve the degraded conditions in their community and explores the ways their activism and political practices resist the negative stereotypes of race, class, and gender associated with their ethnic group. Book jacket.

Contents:

From Agent Orange to super fund sites to anti-immigrant sentiments : multiple voyages, on-going challenges

New immigration and the American nation : a framework for citizenship and belonging in contemporary United States

The politics of race : political identity and the struggle for social rights

The politics of race : critical incorporation and inter-minority relations

Family, culture, gender : narratives of ethnic reconstruction and meaning among second-generation Laotian women

Building community, crafting belonging

Conclusion : second-generation Laotians becoming "American".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439908136

1439908133

9781439908150

143990815X

9781439908167

1439908168

OCLC:

713834871