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Before We Remember We Dream
Blends memoir and Southeast Asian history, myth, horror and science fiction to weave a spellbinding meditation on 45 years of the Lao diaspora.
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Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es)
Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this literature retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence-and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war.
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Dance Among Elephants
It is a book that weaves the personal with the cultural, love with loss, and dancing with poetry. The poems express an element of what Lao America can be.
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Elsewhere Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and the Boundary Event
Engaging look at travel across national borders–as a foreigner, a tourist, an immigrant, a refugee–in a pre- and post-9/11 world. Who is welcome where?
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Every Grain of Rice
They say it only takes three generations for a culture to assimilate. What happens next? Learn more here.
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From Mountains to Skyscrapers: The Journey of the lu Mien
David Saechao tells the story of the Iu Mien, a transnational people currently residing in Southern China, Southeast Asia, and Western nations such as the United States and France.
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