Additional Reading - Bibliography on Political Issues

Bays, Sharon. (1998). Work, politics, and coalition building: Hmong women’s activism in a Central California town. In Nancy A. Naples (Ed.), Community activism and feminist politics: Organizing across race, class, and gender (pp. 301- 325). New York: Routledge.

Breyer, Chloe A. (1993). Religious liberty in law and practice: Vietnamese home temples and the first amendment. Journal of Church and State 35(2), 367-401.

Bui, James Dien, Tang, Shirley Suet-ling, Kiang, Peter Nien-chu. (2004). The local/ global politics of Boston’s Viet-Vote. AAPI Nexus 2(2), 10-18.

Collet, Christian. (2005). Bloc voting, polarization, and the panethnic hypothesis: The case of Little Saigon. The Journal of Politics 67(3), 907-933.

Ferris, Michael. (1994). A study of political participation in a Hmong community. In Annette White-Parks, et al. (Eds.). A gathering of voices on the Asian American experience (pp. 3-7). Fort Atkinson, WI: Highsmith.

Harles, John C. (1999). Politics in an American lifeboat: The case of Laotian immigrants. Journal of American Studies 25(3), 419- 441.

Hein, Jeremy. (2000). Interpersonal discrimination against Hmong Americans: Parallels and variation in microlevel racial inequality. The Sociological Quarterly 41(3), 413-429.

Hing, Bill Ong. (2005). Deporting Cambodian refugees: Justice denied? Crime & Delinquency 51(2), 265-290.

Lam, Tony. (2002). Breaking down the walls: My journey from a refugee camp to the Westminster City Council. UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal, 8(1), 156-165.

Ong, Nhu-Ngoc T. & Meyer, David S. (2004). Protest and political incorporation: Vietnamese American protests, 1975- 2001. Irvine, CA: Center for the Study of Democracy. Paper 04-08. http://repositories.cdlib.org/csd/04-08.

Rimmer, Tony & Brody, Jeffrey. (2001). The role of religion and culture in tolerance for First Amendment freedoms in a Southern California Vietnamese community. In Daniel A. Stout & Judith M. Buddenbaum (Eds). Religion and popular culture: Studies on the interaction of worldviews (pp. 143-168). Ames: Iowa State University Press.

Sontag, Deborah. (2003, November 16). In a homeland far from home. New York Times Magazine, 48-53, 92, 98, 105-106. (Cambodian deportation)

Tsang, Daniel C. (2000). Serve the people? Challenges in Little Saigon. In Fred Ho, et al. (Eds.). Legacy to liberation: Politics and culture of revolutionary Asian Pacific America (pp, 217- 226). Brooklyn, N.Y.: Big Red Media.

Yoshikawa, Taeko. (2006). From a refugee camp to the Minnesota State Senate: A case study of a Hmong Woman’s challenge Hmong Studies Journal 7(1), 1-23. http://hmongstudies.org/yoshikawa.pdf.