Selected Recent Acquisitions

Aday, Ronald H. & Kano, Zakari M. (1997).

Attitudes towards caring for aging parents: A comparison of Laotian and U.S. students. Educational Gerontology 23(2), 151-167.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Examines the role of culture in filial obligations among 60 Laotian high school students and 60 American high school students.

Argiros, Rita Michele. (1994).

Kinship, work and welfare: An event history analysis of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement. Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Binghamton.
E184 I43 A74 1994a Southeast Asian Archive
Analyzes the way Vietnamese, Chinese, Lao, and Khmer refugees have combined work and welfare with changing household structures between 1983-1987.

Bankston, Carl L. III & Zhou, Min. (1996).

Go fish: The Louisiana Vietnamese and ethnic entrepreneurship in an extractive industry. National Journal of Sociology 10(1), 37-55.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Uses U.S. census data in examining the concentrated involvement of Louisiana's Vietnamese population in the state's fishing industry.

Duncan, Julianne Smith. (1987).

Cambodian refugee use of indigenous and Western healers to prevent or alleviate mental illness. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington.
RC451.4 R43 D31 1987a SE Asian Archive
Examines traditional and Western healing choices within the context of an extensive ethnographic examination of the Pierce County, Washington Cambodian community.

Getahun, Linde Joveda. (1997).

Women in cultural transition: Voices of Hmong mothers in an urban school. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota.
F615 H55 G48 1997a Southeast Asian Archive
Based on interviews with 20 Hmong mothers between the ages of 17 and 21 enrolled in a St. Paul, Minnesota high school

Goldman, Ann Yarwood. (1995).

Lao Mien embroidery: migration and change. Bangkok: White Lotus.
TT770 G653 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Study of Mien needlework in Thailand and in the United States by a co-founder of the Lao Handcraft Center in Berkeley, California. Contains many color illustrations and a glossary of Lao Mien embroidery designs.

Hong, Thao. (1995).

Hmong music in Vietnam. Revised & translated by Phong T. Nguyen. Nhac Viet: The Journal of Vietnamese Music special issue, 4:2.
ML345 V5 H657 1995 Southeast Asian Archive
Revision and translation of the author's research conducted among the Hmong in Ha Giang Province in the 1950s.

Kent, Douglas R & Felkenes, George T. (1998).

Cultural explanations for Vietnamese youth involvement in street gangs. Final report to the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.
HV6439 U72 W465 1998 c.2 Southeast Asian Archive
Study sponsored by the City of Westminster in order to make recommendations for the development of effective prevention programs.

Miyares, Ines M. (1997).

Changing perceptions of space and time as measures of Hmong acculturation. Professional Geographer 49(2), 214-225.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Using interviews and participant observation among 120 Hmong university students and their families in California's San Joaquin Valley, settlement patterns and use of space is traced from Laos to the 1.5 generation.

Poethig, Kathryn Aileen. (1997).

Ambivalent moralities: Cambodian Americans and dual citizenship in Phnom Penh. Ph.D. dissertation, Graduate Theological Union.
DS554.46 A46 P48 1997a Southeast Asian Archive
An ethnology of the moral discourse of Cambodian Americans as transnational citizens.

Reasmey Angkor Newsletter. Vol. 2, 1994- .

San Francisco: The Cambodian New Society of San Francisco.
DS554 P437 vol. 2-4, 1994/1995-1996/1997 Southeast Asian Archive
Khmer and English publication covering events internationally and in the United States relating to the Cambodian American community.

Vietnam Review: VR.. Vol. 1, 1996- .

Editor: Huynh Sanh Thong. Hamden, Conn.: Vietnam Review (46 Glendower Road, Hamden, Conn. 06517).
PL4378 A49 vol. 1-4 Southeast Asian Archive
Quarterly publication containing stories, poems, essays and studies.

Wood, Joseph. (1997).

Vietnamese American place making in Northern Virginia. The Geographical Review 87(1), 58-72.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters File
Discusses the impact of the Vietnamese American population on the suburban landscape.