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Little Saigons : Staying Vietnamese in America by Karin Aguilar-San Juan (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN-100816654859
ISBN-139780816654857
eBay Product ID (ePID)73577393
Product Key Features
Number of Pages248 Pages
Publication NameLittle Saigons : Staying Vietnamese in America
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
SubjectHuman Geography, Sociology / General, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Sociology / Urban
TypeTextbook
AuthorKarin Aguilar-San Juan
Subject AreaSocial Science
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2009-016774
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal305.895/922073
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Where Does Viet Nam End and America Begin? 1. Producing and Constructing Vietnamese America 2. Q: Nationality? A: Asian. 3. Like a Dream I Can Never Forget: Remembering and Commemorating the Past 4. What's Good for Business Is Good for the Community: Packaging and Selling Vietnamese America 5. Implications for Community and Place Conclusion: How Do You Stay Vietnamese in America? Appendix: Research and Methodology Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index
SynopsisKarin Aguilar-San Juan examines the contradictions of Vietnamese American community and identity in two emblematic yet different locales: Little Saigon in suburban Orange County, California (widely described as the capital of Vietnamese America) and the urban "Vietnamese town" of Fields Corner in Boston, Massachusetts. Their distinctive qualities challenge assumptions about identity and space, growth amid globalization, and processes of Americanization.With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, this work elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness.Staying Vietnamese, according to Aguilar-San Juan, is not about replicating life in Viet Nam. Rather, it involves moving toward a state of equilibrium that, though always in flux, allows refugees, immigrants, and their U.S.-born offspring to recalibrate their sense of self in order to become Vietnamese anew in places far from their presumed geographic home., Karin Aguilar-San Juan examines the contradictions of Vietnamese American community and identity in two emblematic yet different locales: Little Saigon in suburban Orange County, California (widely described as the capital of Vietnamese America) and the urban "Vietnamese town" of Fields Corner in Boston, Massachusetts. Their distinctive qualities challenge assumptions about identity and space, growth amid globalization, and processes of Americanization. With a comparative and race-cognizant approach, Aguilar-San Juan shows how places like Little Saigon and Fields Corner are sites for the simultaneous preservation and redefinition of Vietnamese identity. Intervening in debates about race, ethnicity, multiculturalism, and suburbanization as a form of assimilation, this work elaborates on the significance of place as an integral element of community building and its role in defining Vietnamese American-ness. Staying Vietnamese, according to Aguilar-San Juan, is not about replicating life in Viet Nam. Rather, it involves moving toward a state of equilibrium that, though always in flux, allows refugees, immigrants, and their U.S.-born offspring to recalibrate their sense of self in order to become Vietnamese anew in places far from their presumed geographic home.
LC Classification NumberE184.V53A35 2009
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