Grace after genocide : Cambodians in the United States /

Grace after genocide : Cambodians in the United States /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Mortland, Carol A. (Carol Anne), 1945- author.
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]
Description:	ix, 290 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Khmers -- United States. Refugees -- Cambodia. Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions. Cambodian Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Cambodian Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Khmers. Refugees. Refugees -- Social conditions. Cambodia. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11053258

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ISBN:	9781785334702 1785334700
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Grace after Genocide is the first comprehensive ethnography of Cambodian refugees, charting their struggle to transition from life in agrarian Cambodia to survival in post-industrial America, while maintaining their identities as Cambodians. The ethnography contrasts the lives of refugees who arrived in America after 1975, with their focus on Khmer traditions, values, and relations, with those of their children who, as descendants of the Khmer Rouge catastrophe, have struggled to become Americans in a society that defines them as different. The ethnography explores America's mid-twentieth century involvement in Southeast Asia and its enormous consequences on multiple generations of Khmer refugees"--
Other form:	Online version: Mortland, Carol A. (Carol Anne), 1945- Grace after genocide. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785334719

Table of Contents:

Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Cambodians to Refugees
Chapter 1. Being in America
Chapter 2. Economic Survival
Chapter 3. Refugee Litanies
Chapter 4. Resettlement Realities
Chapter 5. Family
Chapter 6. Parents and Children
Chapter 7. Community
Chapter 8. Religion
Chapter 9. Health
Chapter 10. Homeland
Chapter 11. Preserving Culture
Chapter 12. Beyond Refugees
Bibliography
Index