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    Displacements and Diasporas
    Asians in the Americas

    Wanni W. Anderson (Edited by), Robert G Lee (Edited by)

    9780813536118

    Paperback / softback, published 18 May 2005

    312 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.426 kg

    Through its combination of critical analysis of the diaspora framework and its presentation of carefully crafted case studies, Displacements and Diasporas breaks new ground both theoretically and substantively.
    - Lane Ryo Hirabayashi (University of California, Riverside)

    Asians have settled in every country in the Western Hemisphere; some are recent arrivals, other descendents of immigrants who arrived centuries ago. Bringing together essays by thirteen scholars from the humanities and social sciences, Displacements and Diasporas explores this genuinely transnational Asian American experience-one that crosses the Pacific and traverses the Americas from Canada to Brazil, from New York to the Caribbean.

    With an emphasis on anthropological and historical contexts, the essays show how the experiences of Asians across the Americas have been shaped by the social dynamics and politics of settlement locations as much as by transnational connections and the economic forces of globalization. Contributors bring new insights to the unique situations of Asian communities previously overlooked by scholars, such as Vietnamese Canadians and the Lao living in Rhode Island. Other topics include Chinese laborers and merchants in Latin America and the Caribbean, Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil, Afro-Amerasians in America, and the politics of second-generation Indian American youth culture.

    Together the essays provide a valuable comparative portrait of Asians across the Americas. Engaging issues of diaspora, transnational social practice and community building, gender, identity, institutionalized racism, and deterritoriality, this volume presents fresh perspectives on displacement, opening the topic up to a wider, more interdisciplinary terrain of inquiry and teaching.

    Asian American displacements / Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee
    Diaspora, transnationalism, and Asian American studies : positions and debates / Christopher Lee
    Diasporas, displacements, and the construction of transnational identities / K. Scott Wong
    Images of the Chinese in West Indian history / Walton Look Lai
    On coolies and shopkeepers : the Chinese as Huagong (laborers) and Huashang (merchants) in Latin America/Caribbean / Evelyn Hu-DeHart
    From Japanese to Nikkei and back : integration strategies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser
    In the Black Pacific : testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian displacements / Bernard Scott Lucious
    Lived simultaneity and discourses of diasporic difference / Nina Glick Schiller
    From refugees to transmigrants: the Vietnamese in Canada / Louis-Jacques Dorais
    Between necessity and choice: Rhode Island Lao American women / Wanni W. Anderson
    Mixed desires : second-generation Indian Americans and the politics of youth culture / Sunaina Maira
    Crossing borders of disciplines and departments / Robert G. Lee
    Anthropology, Asian studies, Asian American studies : open systems, closed minds / Nancy Abelmann
    The ordeal of ethnic studies in the age of globalization / E. San Juan Jr
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