Envisioning America

New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

Автор: Tritia Toyota

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Stanford University Press

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"Envisioning America" is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese livin...

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Автор

Tritia Toyota

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2009

страници

256

EAN

9780804762427

ISBN

0804762422

Enbook ID

04718708

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

340

Размери

152 x 229 x 23

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"Envisioning America" is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California become highly involved civic and political actors. Like other immigrants to the United States, their individual life stories are of survival, becoming, and belonging. But unlike other Asian immigrant groups before them, they have the resources - educational, economic, and social - to become fully accepted in their new homes. Nevertheless, Chinese Americans are finding that their social credentials can be a double-edged sword. Their complete incorporation as citizens is bounded both by mainstream discourse in the United States, which paints them as perpetual foreigners, and by an existing Asian-Pacific American community not always accepting of their economic achievements and transnational ties. This book challenges the notion that Asian Americans are apathetic or apolitical about civic engagement, reminding us that political involvement would often have been a life-threatening act in their homeland. The voices of Chinese Americans who tell their stories uncover the ways in which these new citizens actively embrace their American citizenship and offer a unique perspective on how global identities transplanted across borders become rooted in the local.

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