Yen Espiritu's Books

Asian American Women and Men

Labor, Laws, and Love

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian American Women and Men

Labor, Laws, and Love

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. Asian American Men and Women documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asians in the United States has (re)structured the balance of power between Asian American women and men and shaped their struggles to create and maintain social institutions and systems of meaning. Espiritu emphasizes how race, gender, and class, as categories of difference, do not parallel but instead intersect and confirm one other.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

200

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0742560600

ISBN 13

9780742560604

Home Bound

Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Home Bound

Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

By: Yen Le Espiritu

In this highly original and inspired book, Espiritu bursts the binaries and shows us how the tensions of race, gender, nation, and colonial legacies situate contemporary transnationalism. Conceptually rich and empirically grounded, Home Bound blurs the borders of sociology and cultural studies like no other book I know. Kudos to Espiritu for this boundary-breaking tour de force!"—Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Domestica: Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence "A singular achievement. Not only does it cast light on the deep historical entanglements of immigration and imperialism, citizenship and race, and gender and subjectivity in the United States, but by highlighting the varied voices of Filipino Americans, it also calls attention to their creative potential to make a home under some of the most inhospitable conditions. Theoretically rich, empirically grounded, and lucidly written, this book marks a major advance in our attempts to understand the 'specter of migration' haunting the world today."—Vicente L. Rafael, author of White Love and Other Events in Filipino History "Home Bound combines excellent ethnography of the Filipino experience in the U.S. with a brilliant and devastating critique of traditional scholarship on immigration. Espiritu's analysis of how the vectors of identity articulate with one another is particularly cutting-edge."—Sarah J. Mahler, author of American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins "Using a critical transnational, feminist, and historical perspective, Espiritu insightfully and sensitively analyzes the meaning of home, community, friendship, love, and family for Filipino Americans. In the process, she unveils what these immigrants can tell us about gender, race, politics, economics, and culture in the United States today."—Diane L. Wolf, author of Factory Daughters: Gender, Household Dynamics, and Rural Industrialization in Java "Espiritu makes an outstanding contribution to our appreciation of the dynamics of immigrant cultures within the political economy of transnationalism."—Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520235274

ISBN 13

9780520235274

Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Lan Duong,Ma Vang,Victor Bascara,Khatharya Um,Lila Sharif,Nigel Hatton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Lan Duong,Ma Vang,Victor Bascara,Khatharya Um,Lila Sharif,Nigel Hatton

Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples of how to link communities, movements, networks, artists, and academic institutions and forge new and humane reciprocal paradigms, dialogues, visuals, and technologies that replace and reverse the dehumanization of refugees that occurs within imperialist gazes and frames, sensational stories, savior narratives, big data, colorful mapping, and spectator scholarship. This resource and guide is for all readers invested in addressing the concerns, perspectives, knowledge production, and global imaginings of refugees.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520386361

ISBN 13

9780520386365

Body Counts

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Body Counts

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence—and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the “damage-centered” approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, Body Counts moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520277716

ISBN 13

9780520277717

Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Lan Duong,Ma Vang,Victor Bascara,Khatharya Um,Lila Sharif,Nigel Hatton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Departures

An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Lan Duong,Ma Vang,Victor Bascara,Khatharya Um,Lila Sharif,Nigel Hatton

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520386361

ISBN 13

9780520386365

Home Bound

Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Home Bound

Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Filipino Americans, who experience life in the United States as immigrants, colonized nationals, and racial minorities, have been little studied, though they are one of our largest immigrant groups. Based on her in-depth interviews with more than one hundred Filipinos in San Diego, California, Yen Le Espiritu investigates how Filipino women and men are transformed through the experience of migration, and how they in turn remake the social world around them. Her sensitive analysis reveals that Filipino Americans confront U.S. domestic racism and global power structures by living transnational lives that are shaped as much by literal and symbolic ties to the Philippines as they are by social, economic, and political realities in the United States. Espiritu deftly weaves vivid first-person narratives with larger social and historical contexts as she discovers the meaning of home, community, gender, and intergenerational relations among Filipinos. Among other topics, she explores the ways that female sexuality is defined in contradistinction to American mores and shows how this process becomes a way of opposing racial subjugation in this country. She also examines how Filipinos have integrated themselves into the American workplace and looks closely at the effects of colonialism.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

284

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520929268

ISBN 13

9780520929265

Asian American Women and Men

Labor, Laws, and Love

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian American Women and Men

Labor, Laws, and Love

By: Yen Le Espiritu

What is the "Asian American experience"? What role does gender play within that experience? How do race and economics factor in? Asian American women and men answers these questions and examines how Asian American culture is shaped by a variety of forces. This groundbreaking volume in the new Gender lens series is among the first to explore the Asian experience from a gendered perspective. Author Yen Le Espiritu documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asian Americans has structured gender relationships among them and has contributed to the creation of social institutions and systems of meaning. In so doing, she illustrates how race, class, and gender do not merely run parallel to each another, but rather intersect and confirm one another. Some of the topics discussed include Asian Americans and immigration, labor recruitment, education, relationships, and stereotypes. Asian American women and men has an exceptionally broad audience including students and professionals in gender studies, Asian American studies, race and ethnicity studies, sociology, political science, anthropology, and American studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803972555

ISBN 13

9780803972551

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439905568

ISBN 13

9781439905562

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

First person narratives by Filipino Americans reveal the range of their experiences-before and after immigration.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439905576

ISBN 13

9781439905579

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

First person narratives by Filipino Americans reveal the range of their experiences-before and after immigration.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439905576

ISBN 13

9781439905579

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Espiritu

With different histories, cultures, languages, and identities, most Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, and Vietnamese origin are lumped together and viewed by other Americans simply as Asian Americans. Since the mid 1960s, however, these different Asian American groups have come together to promote and protect both their individual and their united interests. The first book to examine this particular subject, Asian American Panethnicity is a highly detailed case study of how, and with what success, diverse national-origin groups can come together as a new, enlarged panethnic group. Yen Le Espiritu explores the construction of large-scale affiliations, in which previously unrelated groups submerge their differences and assume a common identity. Making use of extensive interviews and statistical data, she examines how Asian panethnicity protects the rights and interests of all Asian American groups, including those, like the Vietnamese and Cambodians, which are less powerful and prominent than the Chinese and Japanese. By citing specific examples—educational discrimination, legal redress, anti-Asian violence, the development of Asian American Studies programs, social services, and affirmative action—the author demonstrates how Asian Americans came to understand that only by cooperating with each other would they succeed in fighting the racism they all faced.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

238

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1566390966

ISBN 13

9781566390965

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Filipino American Lives

By: Yen Espiritu

Filipino Americans are now the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. As reflected in this collection, their lives represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand ethnic identity and Filipino American history. Men and women, old and young, middle and working class, first and second generation, all openly discuss their changing sense of identity, the effects of generational and cultural differences on their families, and the role of community involvement in their lives. Pre- and post-1965 immigrants share their experiences, from the working students who came before WWII, to the manongs in the field, to the stewards and officers in the U.S. Navy, to the "brain drain" professionals, to the Filipinos born and raised in the United States. As Yen Le Espiritu writes in the Introduction, "each of the narratives reveals ways in which Filipino American identity has been and continues to be shaped by a colonial history and a white-dominated culture. It is through recognizing how profoundly race has affected their lives that Filipino Americans forge their ethnic identities—identities that challenge stereotypes and undermine practices of cultural domination." In the series Asian American History and Culture, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1566393175

ISBN 13

9781566393171

Body Counts

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Body Counts

The Vietnam War and Militarized Refugees

By: Yen Le Espiritu

Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence—and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the "damage-centered" approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, Body Counts moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

265

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0520959000

ISBN 13

9780520959002

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Asian American Panethnicity

Bridging Institutions and Identities

By: Yen Le Espiritu,Yen Espiritu

A case study of how cultural diversity among Asian Americans is subsumed for social and political advantage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

239

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1439905568

ISBN 13

9781439905562

Book's by Yen Espiritu

Asian American Women and Men

Asian American Women and Men

Home Bound

Home Bound

Departures

Departures

Body Counts

Body Counts

Departures

Departures

Home Bound

Home Bound

Asian American Women and Men

Asian American Women and Men

Asian American Panethnicity

Asian American Panethnicity

Filipino American Lives

Filipino American Lives

Filipino American Lives

Filipino American Lives

Asian American Panethnicity

Asian American Panethnicity

Filipino American Lives

Filipino American Lives

Body Counts

Body Counts

Asian American Panethnicity

Asian American Panethnicity

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email