I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience
I Begin My Life All Over records the story of 35 Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from Laos to relocation to a new continent, and a new century. Throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical context, and draws rich comparisons between the...
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I Begin My Life All Over records the story of 35 Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from Laos to relocation to a new continent, and a new century. Throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780807072356 (0807072354)
Publish date: April 13th 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English