Family Tightrope : : The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans / / Nazli Kibria.
In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family. Questioning the accuracy of such family portraya...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER ONE. Assimilation, Adaptation, and Immigrant Life
- CHAPTER TWO. The Study and the Setting
- CHAPTER THREE. Vietnamese Roots
- CHAPTER FOUR. Patchworking
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Family Tightrope
- CHAPTER SIX. Generation Gaps
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Changing Contours of Vietnamese American Family Life
- Bibliography
- Index