Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

by Tritia Toyota

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762422
• ISBN13: 9780804762427
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"