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Slow Anthropology: Negotiating Difference with the lu Mien
This study challenges the prevailing academic theory that groups living in the hinterlands of Southeast Asia have traditionally fled to the hills, seeking isolated independence and safety.
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The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth
Poems reflect on and portray the Hmong experience both in Asia and in the U.S., and the struggles Hmong families go through in assimilating to U.
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The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages
Bringing together critiques of liberalism with postcolonial approaches to the modern cvisual artography of progress, Nguyen proposes ’the gift of freedom’ as the name for those forces that avow to reverence aliveness and beauty, and to govern an enlightened humanity, while producing new subjects and actions–such as a grateful refugee, or enduring war–in an age of liberal empire.
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The Mountains Sing
Enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.
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The People v. Agent Orange
The People vs. Agent Orange closely follows two activists as they take on the chemical industry, and demand accountability for the pernicious legacy caused by the use of this poisonous herbicide.
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