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Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity by Jennifer Lee

Authors: Jennifer Lee, Min Zhou, Min Zhou
ISBN-13: 9780415946698, ISBN-10: 0415946697
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Jennifer Lee

Book Synopsis

The Asian-origin population in the U.S. constitutes the fastest growing ethnic group. As of 2000, this group constitutes 4 percent of the total U.S. population, roughly 12 million. As a result, Asian American youth are quickly growing into their own subculture and carving out their own identity in American culture. This first-rate collection addresses the important topics concerning Asian American youth as a distinctive group and examines such topics as immigration, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality and ethnic identification.

1	Introduction : the making of culture, identity, and ethnicity among Asian American youth	1
2	Coming of age at the turn of the twenty-first century : a demographic profile of Asian American youth	33
3	Intermarriage and multiracial identification : the Asian American experience and implications for changing color lines	51
4	Rizal Day queen contests, Filipino nationalism, and femininity	67
5	Nisei daughters' courtship and romance in Los Angeles before World War II	83
6	Hell's a poppin' : Asian American women's youth consumer culture	101
7	Shifting ethnic identity and consciousness : U.-S.-born Chinese American youth in the 1930s and 1950s	113
8	Instant Karma : the commercialization of Asian Indian culture	131
9	Transnational cultural practices of Chinese immigrant youth and parachute kids	143
10	Reinventing the wheel : import car racing in Southern California	159
11	"No lattes here" : Asian American youth and the cyber cafe obsession	177
12	Filipinotown and the DJ scene : cultural expression and identity affirmation of Filipino American youth in Los Angeles	191
13	A shortcut to the American dream? Vietnamese youth gangs in Little Saigon	207
14	Lost in the fray : Cambodian American youth in Providence, Rhode Island	221
15	Made in the U.S.A. : second-generation Korean American campus evangelicals	235
16	Performing race, negotiating identity : Asian American professional actors in Hollywood	251
17	Searching for home : voices of gay Asian American youth in West Hollywood	269
18	Marriage dilemmas : partner choices and constraints for Korean Americans in New York City	285
19	A commentary on young Asian American activists from the 1960s to the present	299
20	Conclusion : reflections, thoughts, and directions for future research	313