Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Notes xv
5. References Cited xvii
6. Part I. Hmong Social and Political Adaptation in the United States
7. 1. The American Experience of The Hmong: A Historical Review Kou Yang 3
8. 2. Hmong Americans: A Demographic Portrait 54
9. 3. An Analysis of Poverty in Hmong American Communities 66
10. 4. Civic Values and Political Engagement in Two Hmong American Communities 106
11. 5. Electoral Participation in the Hmong American Community: an Initial Analysis 131
12. Part II. Intersections of Hmong Identity With Gender and Age
13. 6. Great Expectations: The Struggles of Hmong American High School Boys 151
14. 7. Women in the Hmong Diaspora 165
15. 8. Hmong Americans: The Conceptualization and Experience of Aging in the United States 188
16. Part III. Hmong Arts and Literature
17. 9. The Double Diaspora: China and Laos in the Folklore of Hmong American Refugees 209
18. 10. “Reharmonizing” the Generations: Rap, Poetry, and Hmong Oral Tradition 233
19. 11. Haunting and Inhabitation in Yang’s Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir 247
20. 12. Hmong American Studies: A Bibliographic Essay 269
21. Contributors 287
22. Index 291