Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2015.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction. Southeast Asian Americans: memories, visions, and subjectiveness / Jonathan H. X. Lee — Part I: Varieties of homes. — Collective and conflicting memories in narratives of migration from Indonesia to the United States / Dahlia Gratia Setiyawan — Balikbayan paranoia: tourism development in Manila and the anxiety of return / Eric J. Pido — Translation counts: comparative analysis of Thai tests for the 2010 U.S. Census / Kanjana Thepboriruk.
• Part II: Varieties of religiosities. The spirits you see in the mirror: spirit possession in the Vietnamese American diaspora / Janet Hoskins — The Buddha, spirits, and protection: Cambodian spiritual practices in Long Beach / Susan Needham — Acting out: Thai American Buddhists encounters with white privilege and white supremacy / Jonathan H. X. Lee — Occupying religious cand cultural spaces: Vietnamese American Catholics in New Territory / Linh Hoang — The sorceress of Westminster / Rossina Zamora Liu.
• Part III: Varieties of creativities. Poetic justice: Cambodian American literary visions / Mary Thi Pham and Jonathan H. X. Lee — Altar art: Binh Danh and the Cambodian genocide / Isabelle Thuy Pelaud — Silence and void, or double trouble: Hồng-An Truong’s visual archives / Việt Lê.
• Part IV: Varieties of cultures. Music and Indonesian American experience: gamelan, angklung and dangdut / Trikartikaningsih Byas — Hmong Americans and Alzheimer’s disease: stimulating remote memories through grandfather’s story cloth to promote personhood / Linda A Gerdner — Examining 1.5 and second-generations Laotian American achievement through acculturation, cultural capital, and social capital frameworks / Krissyvan Khamvongsa Truong.
• Part V: Varieties of sexualities. Embracing the digital: gay Filipino men and the possibilities of technology and self-pleasure / Raymond San Diego — Cambodian/Cambodian American same sex identities and encounters: possible research trajectories / Karen Quintiliani — Epilogue: Re-sighting Southeast Asian American studies / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials.
• Southeast Asian Diaspora in the United States: Memories and Visions, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow provides various exploratory interpretations of 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. From back cover.

Subjects:

• Southeast Asians in the Diaspora (Conference) (3rd : 2011 : San Francisco, Calif.)
• Southeast Asian Americans — History — Congresses.
• Asian Americans — History — Congresses.
• Southeast Asians — United States — Congresses.
• Conference papers and proceedings. fast (OCoLC)fst01423772
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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