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Author | : Jane Hamilton-Merritt |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253207562 |
Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992. During those years, most Hmong sided with the French against the Japanese and Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh, and then with the Americans against the North Viemamese.
Author | : Maren Tomforde |
Publisher | : Lit Verlag |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The concept of cultural spatiality includes all aspects of human agency, experiences and outside influences. As such, it encompasses socio-culturally enacted localities, whether these are real, imagined or only potential spheres of social, economic, religious, symbolic, or political action. As in the case of the Hmong in northern Thailand, people can be anchored via processes of place making in local settlements, in a diaspora spread over five continents or in the "Otherworld" of the supernatural agents. The concept of the Hmong Mountains signifies the "place" the Hmong people have constituted to maintain their socio-cultural distinctiveness despite statelessness. It is a mental model of the Hmong lifeworld which has evolved during the course of a long history of migration, dispersal and settlement in Thailand.
Author | : Paul Hillmer |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2011-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0873517903 |
A rich narrative history of the worldwide community of Hmong people, exploring their cultural practices, war and refugee camp experiences, and struggles and triumphs as citizens of new countries.
Author | : Khoua Thao |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Hmong Americans |
ISBN | : 9780578875743 |
The journey of a Hmong family escaping war-torn Laos to Thailand refugee camps. Eventually the family was accepted to come to the United States of America.
Author | : Vincent K. Her |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0873518551 |
Farmers in Laos, U.S. allies during the Vietnam War, refugees in Thailand, citizens of the Western world, the stories of the Hmong who now live in America have been told in detail through books and articles and oral histories over the past several decades. Like any immigrant group, members of the first generation may yearn for the past as they watch their children and grandchildren find their way in the dominant culture of their new home. For Hmong people born and educated in the United States, a definition of self often includes traditional practices and tight-knit family groups but also a distinctly Americanized point of view. How do Hmong Americans negotiate the expectations of these two very different cultures? This book contains a series of essays featuring a range of writing styles, leading scholars, educators, artists, and community activists who explore themes of history, culture, gender, class, family, and sexual orientation, weaving their own stories into depictions of a Hmong American community where people continue to develop complex identities that are collectively shared but deeply personal as they help to redefine the multicultural America of today.
Author | : Anne Fadiman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0374533407 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author | : Thomas S. Vang |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1435709322 |
This is the first completely up-to-date Hmong history book ever written by a member of the Hmong people. It describes the earliest civilizations of the Hmong and Miao in China, and why some of the Hmong migrated into Southeast Asia in the early 19th century, particularly to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand; and how the Hmong of Laos were involved with the Lao civil war, especially the secret war from 1962 to 1975 that caused almost a hundred thousand Hmong to flee to Thailand and Western countries as political refugees after the Communists takeover. This book includes the forcible repatriation of the Lao-Hmong asylum seekers at Nam Khao refugee camp in Thailand back to Laos in late 2009 and the arrest and discharge of former General Vang Pao by the U.S. authorities. "[It] is full of fascinating materials [and] a wonderful book. Congratulations," commented by Dr Nicholas C. T. Tapp, Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.
Author | : Mai Na M. Lee |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299298841 |
Authoritative and original, Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom is among the first works of its kind, exploring the influence that French colonialism and Hmong leadership had on the Hmong people's political and social aspirations.
Author | : Chance Vang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781644100202 |
Author | : Chia Youyee Vang |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190622156 |
During the Vietnam War, the US Air Force secretly trained pilots from Laos, skirting Lao neutrality in order to bolster the Royal Lao Air Force and their own war efforts. Beginning in 1964, this covert project, "Water Pump," operated out of Udorn Airbase in Thailand with the support of the CIA. This Secret War required recruits from Vietnam-border region willing to take great risks--a demand that was met by the marginalized Hmong ethnic minority. Soon, dozens of Hmong men were training at Water Pump and providing air support to the US-sponsored clandestine army in Laos. Short and problematic training that resulted in varied skill levels, ground fire, dangerous topography, bad weather conditions, and poor aircraft quality, however, led to a nearly 50 percent casualty rate, and those pilots who survived mostly sought refuge in the United States after the war. Drawing from numerous oral history interviews, Fly Until You Die brings their stories to light for the first time--in the words of those who lived it.