Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Toyota, Tritia
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Toyota, Tritia

Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of how naturalized Chinese living in Southern California...
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Author: Tritia Toyota
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Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Toyota, Tritia

Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

CHF 37.42
Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging by Toyota, Tritia

Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

CHF 37.42
Author: Tritia Toyota
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Tritia Toyota
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/20/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780804762427


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2010 pg. 66

About the Author
Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is also an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years in Southern California television news. She wrote and produced the first Emmy award-winning, hour-long documentary Asian America.
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