Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging (Asian America),Used

Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging (Asian America),Used

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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 resourcesWesternbased educations, entrepreneurial strengths, and widely based social networks in Asiato become fully accepted in their new homes.Nevertheless, Chinese Americans are finding that their social credentials can be a doubleedged 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 AsianPacific 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 lifethreatening 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.

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