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Laotian Daughters: Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
Temple University Press, 2011 eISBN: 978-1-4399-0814-3 | Cloth: 978-1-4399-0813-6 | Paper: 978-1-4399-0815-0 Library of Congress Classification F870.L27S53 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.895073079463
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. Using ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and archival data on their participation in Asian Youth Advocates—a youth leadership development project—Shah analyzes the teenagers' mobilization for social rights, cross-race relations, and negotiations of gender and inter-generational relations. She also addresses issues of ethnic youth, and immigration and citizenship and how these shape national identities. Shah ultimately finds that citizenship as a social practice is not just an adult experience, and that ethnicity is an ongoing force in the political and social identities of second-generation Laotians. See other books on: Asian Pacific Environmental Network | Belonging | Children of immigrants | Environmental justice | Teenage girls See other titles from Temple University Press |
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Laotian Daughters: Working toward Community, Belonging, and Environmental Justice
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Temple University Press, 2011
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0814-3
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0813-6
Paper: 978-1-4399-0815-0
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0814-3
Cloth: 978-1-4399-0813-6
Paper: 978-1-4399-0815-0
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.
Using ethnographic observations, interviews, focus groups, and archival data on their participation in Asian Youth Advocates—a youth leadership development project—Shah analyzes the teenagers' mobilization for social rights, cross-race relations, and negotiations of gender and inter-generational relations. She also addresses issues of ethnic youth, and immigration and citizenship and how these shape national identities.
Shah ultimately finds that citizenship as a social practice is not just an adult experience, and that ethnicity is an ongoing force in the political and social identities of second-generation Laotians.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC | REQUEST ACCESSIBLE FILE
