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- catalog abstract "I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical and cultural context, and draws rich comparisons between the experience of the Hmong in the 1990s and her mother's immigration from Eastern European shtetls in the 1930s.".
- catalog contributor b10628925.
- catalog contributor b10628926.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "I Begin My Life All Over records the story of thirty-six Hmong immigrants to California, tracing their journey from the subsistence farms of Laos, through their harrowing escape into the camps of Thailand, and to relocation to a new continent, and to a new century. Interspersed throughout these first-person narratives, Lillian Faderman provides historical and cultural context, and draws rich comparisons between the experience of the Hmong in the 1990s and her mother's immigration from Eastern European shtetls in the 1930s.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-262).".
- catalog description "pt. 1. End of a way of life -- Village -- Escape -- Camp -- pt. 2. Becoming American -- To a promised land -- Shamanism, Christianity, and modern medicine -- Women and men -- Battles between the generations -- Gangs -- Being American.".
- catalog extent "xxiv, 262 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "I begin my life all over.".
- catalog identifier "0807072346 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "I begin my life all over.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Beacon Press,".
- catalog relation "I begin my life all over.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.895/942073 21".
- catalog subject "E184.H55 F33 1998".
- catalog subject "Hmong Americans Cultural assimilation.".
- catalog subject "Hmong Americans Ethnic identity.".
- catalog subject "Refugees United States History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. End of a way of life -- Village -- Escape -- Camp -- pt. 2. Becoming American -- To a promised land -- Shamanism, Christianity, and modern medicine -- Women and men -- Battles between the generations -- Gangs -- Being American.".
- catalog title "I begin my life all over : the Hmong and the American immigrant experience / Lillian Faderman with Ghia Xiong.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".