Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides various exploratory interpretations on Southeast Asian American subjectivities, communities, histories, creativities, and cultural expressions, as they are revealed, informed, or infused with visions, dreams, and or memories of self in relation to others, places, time, and events – historically significant or quotidian. The interaction and interplay of visions, memories, and subjectivities is the focus of examination and interpretation, either directly or tangentially. Authors explore varieties of homes, religiosities, creativities, cultural forms and productions, and queer sexualities, utilizing critical ethnic and Asian American studies discourses coupled with other interdisciplinary approaches to provide new and alternative visions on Cambodian, Hmong, Filipino, Indonesian, Lao, Thai, and Vietnamese American subjects and their communities that links Southeast Asia to America in vexing, creative, and purposeful ways. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITORIAL BOARD ABOUT THE EDITOR ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS PREFACE FOREWORD INTRODUCTION PART I CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE PART II CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT PART III CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN PART IV CHAPTER TWELVE CHAPTER THIRTEEN CHAPTER FOURTEEN PART V CHAPTER FIFTEEN CHAPTER SIXTEEN CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INDEX