Asian American Women and Men - Labor, Laws, and Love

Informationen zum Autor Yen Le Espiritu, is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego, has written on ethnicity, immigration and race relations. Originally from Vietnam, she is the author of Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities and Filipino American Lives. Klappentext Labor, laws, and love. Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Zusammenfassung Labor! laws! and love. Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Chapter One: Labor, Laws, and Love Chapter 2 Chapter Two: Stretching Gender, Family, and Community Boundaries, 1840s-1930s Chapter 3 Chapter Three: Changing Lives World War II and the Postwar Years Chapter 4 Chapter Four: Contemporary Asian America Immigration, Increasing Diversity, and Changing Resources Chapter 5 Chapter Five: Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance Constructing Our Own Images Chapter 6 Chapter Six: Beyond Dualisms Constructing an Imagined Community

Product details

• Authors: Yen Espiritu, Yen Le Espiritu
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.10.2007
• EAN: 9780742560611
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-6061-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Gender Lens (Paperback Rowman); The Gender Lens
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity