Making Ethnic Choices by K Leonard
A study of the flexibility of ethnic identity. This book invokes gender, generation, class, religion, language, and the dramatic political changes of the 1940s in South Asia and the United States to show how individual and group perceptions of ethnic identity have changed among Punjabi Mexican Americans in rural California.-
Creating a Buddhist Community
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Outside the Paint
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Paper Son
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No Sword to Bury
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Orientals
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The Vietnamese American 1.5 Generation
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Cane Fires
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Countervisions
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Asian American Panethnicity
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Model Machines
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The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring
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Treacherous Subjects
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Claiming America
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The Asian American Avant-Garde
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On Becoming Filipino
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Reading the Literatures of Asian America
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Mapping AsiaTown Cleveland
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Doing What Had to Be Done
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Recollecting Early Asian America
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The Asian American Movement
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The Collected Short Stories of Bharati Mukherjee
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Where I Have Never Been
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America's Vietnam
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Anna May Wong
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Refugee Lifeworlds
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Intimate Strangers
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Campaigns of Knowledge
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Locating Filipino Americans
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Reencounters
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Smuggled Chinese
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From Confinement to Containment
[A] thoroughly original study that greatly expands our knowledge of how ethnic identities are formedLeonard writes clearly and her inclusion of the voices of the Punjabi-Mexicans lends humor and depth to the history. This insightful study will be of interest to all scholars concerned with immigration and ethnicity and the history of California. --The Journal of Asian Studies This is an extraordinary work. It is simultaneously an ethnography of early South Asian immigrant life in California, a model of fine-grained historical research using all manner of documents to reconstruct and interpret the migration flows, social structure, and family cycles of Punjabi men and their Mexican spouses, and a sophisticated examination of the complex role of 'identity' in their perceptions of themselves and their descendants... In the midst of contemporary discussions about multi-culturalism, politically correctly positions, and valuing diversity, this book would be a fine place to begin a thoughtful consideration of the potential multiplicity of meanings ethnicity may have for human begins. --Journal of American Ethnic History No other book has the scope or the vision of Karen Leonard's work. I expect this book to be consulted as a model of historical research for many years to come. --James Freeman, San Jose State University
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780877228905 |
| ISBN 10 | 0877228906 |
| Title | Making Ethnic Choices |
| Author | K Leonard |
| Series | Asian American History And Cultu Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1992-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |