Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging

Envisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens.

Author: Tritia Toyota
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 10/20/2009
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780804762410

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 11/20/2009 pg. 20

About the Author
Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is also an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years in Southern California television news. She wrote and produced the first Emmy award-winning, hour-long documentary Asian America.