Description: Envisioning America Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging Author(s): Tritia Toyota Format: Hardback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9780804762410, 978-0804762410 Synopsis 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 any other Asian immigrant group before them, they have the resources?Western-based educations, entrepreneurial strengths, and widely based social networks in Asia?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 racially as perpetual foreigners, and by an existing Asian-Pacific American community not always accepting of their economic achievements and transnational ties. Their attempts at inclusion are at the heart of a vigorous struggle for recognition and political empowerment. 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 in these pages 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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Book Title: Envisioning America
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Asian America
Author: Tritia Toyota
Publication Name: Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Subject: Social Sciences, Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 454 g
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
