Asian America : sociological and interdisciplinary perspectives / Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.

Dhingra, Pawan.
Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2014.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-233) and index.
  • Introduction — Race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality — Arrival and history — Class and work lives — Education — Family and personal relations — Citizenship — Media and popular culture — Identity — Inter-minority relations — Social movements and politics.
  • [The authors] critically examine key sociological and interdisciplinary topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social hierarchies (of race, gender, and sexuality), work and class, education, family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements, and politics. … In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global understanding of the Asian experience — p. [4] of cover.

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