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I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience /
I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these firs...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
©1998.
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I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical and cultural context, and draws rich comparisons between the experience of the Hmong in the 1990s and her mother's immigration from Eastern European shtetls in the 1930s. |
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xxiv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262). |
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0807072346 9780807072349 0807072354 9780807072356 |