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Author: Sucheng Chan
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Published: 1994
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity.
Author: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2010-08-17
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1439901392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three generations of Hmong refugees expose the trauma and the joy of their lives.
Author: Sucheng Chan
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781566391627
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of evocative personal testimonies by three generations of Hmong refugees is the first to describe their lives in Laos as slash-and-burn farmers, as refugees after a Communist government came to power in 1975, and as immigrants in the United States. Reflecting on the homes left behind, their narratives chronicle the difficulties of forging a new identity. From Jou Yee Xiong's Life Story: "I stopped teaching my sons many of the Hmong ways because I felt my ancestors and I had suffered enough already. I thought that teaching my children the old ways would only place a burden on them." From Ka Pao Xiong's (Jou Yee Xiong's son) Life Story: "It has been very difficult for us to adapt because we had no professions or trades and we suffered from culture shock. Here in America, both the husband and wife must work simultaneously to earn enough money to live on. Many of our children are ignorant of the Hmong way of life.... Even the old people are forgetting about their life in Laos, as they enjoy the prosperity and good life in America." From Xang Mao Xiong's Life Story: "When the Communists took over Laos and General Vang Pao fled with his family, we, too, decided to leave. Not only my family, but thousands of Hmong tried to flee. I rented a car for thirty thousand Laotian dollars, and it took us to Nasu.... We felt compelled to leave because many of us had been connected to the CIA.... Thousands of Hmong were traveling on foot. Along the way, many of them were shot and killed by Communist soldiers. We witnessed a bloody massacre of civilians." From Vue Vang's Life Story: "Life was so hard in the [Thai refugee] camp that when we found out we could go to the United States, we did not hesitate to grasp the chance. We knew that were we to remain in the camp, there would be no hope for a better future. We would not be able to offer our children anything better than a life of perpetual poverty and anguish."
Author: Sukalaya Kenworthy
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781413723649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How much is your freedom of worship worth to you?For Tran's family and other Christians, worship could mean threats, beatings, and even death. A gripping story from the perspective of Tran Fang, an 11-year-old Christian of the Hmong tribe in North Vietnam. Tran lives in constant fear of losing her father, a leader who dares to stand for Christ and take the gospel to nearby villages. As the government of Vietnam conducts more intense persecution on the believers, her family's turn is unavoidable. Tran keeps praying and asks God to release her relatives in prison and to protect her family from the cruelty of the Communist Regime. The book reveals courage and fellowship that surpass any tragedy, and most importantly, faith that helps the Hmong Christians stay strong until the end.
Author: Christopher Thao Vang
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-05-16
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 1476622620
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Almost no one in the West had heard of the Hmong before National Geographic ran a cover story on the Southeast Asian ethnic group that had allied with the United States in the Vietnam War, and few knew of them before their arrival in the U.S. and other Western nations in 1975. Originating in China centuries ago, they have been known by various names—Miao, Meo, Miaozi, Meng or San Miao—some of them derogatory. The Hmong in the West are war-displaced refugees from China and Laos, though they have been misidentified as belonging to other ethnic groups. This mislabeling has caused confusion about the Hmong and their history. This book details the history of the Hmong and their journey from Eastern to Western countries, providing a clear understanding of an immigrant culture little understood by the American public. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Huping Ling
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0813543428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While a growing number of popular and scholarly works focus on Asian Americans, most are devoted to the experiences of larger groups such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian Americans. This book presents discussion of underrepresented groups, including Burmese, Indonesian, Mong, Hmong, Nepalese, Romani, Tibetan, and Thai Americans.
Author: Paul Hillmer
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0873517903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rich narrative history of the worldwide community of Hmong people, exploring their cultural practices, war and refugee camp experiences, and struggles and triumphs as citizens of new countries.
Author: Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2019-10-11
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 1978806361
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Asian American women scholars experience shockingly low rates of tenure and promotion because of the ways they are marginalized by intersectionalities of race and gender in academia. Fight the Tower shows that Asian American women stand up for their rights and work for positive change for all within academic institutions. The essays provide powerful portraits, reflections, and analyses of a population often rendered invisible by the lies sustaining intersectional injustices to operate an oppressive system.
Author: Ma Vang
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2020-12-21
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1478012846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During its secret war in Laos (1961–1975), the United States recruited proxy soldiers among the Hmong people. Following the war, many of these Hmong soldiers migrated to the United States with refugee status. In History on the Run Ma Vang examines the experiences of Hmong refugees in the United States to theorize refugee histories and secrecy, in particular those of the Hmong. Vang conceptualizes these histories as fugitive histories, as they move and are carried by people who move. Charting the incomplete archives of the war made secret through redacted US state documents, ethnography, film, and literature, Vang shows how Hmong refugees tell their stories in ways that exist separately from narratives of U.S. empire and that cannot be traditionally archived. In so doing, Vang outlines a methodology for writing histories that foreground refugee epistemologies despite systematic attempts to silence those histories.
Author: Mark Francis
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780262560610
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