Our Voices, Our Histories: Asian American and Pacific Islander Women

ntroduction: Our voices
Introduction: Our histories
PART I: EARLY ERA, INDIGENOUS AND GLOBAL ROOTS. 1. Mālamalama: reconnecting as native Hawaiian women through cultural history
2. Global roots and gendered routes: early Asian American women\'s history
3. Two sisters, two stories: transnational lives of Ume Tsuda and Yona Abiko
PART II: NEW INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, GENDER, GENERATION, COMMUNITIES. 4. \"Up to my elbows in rice!\": women building communities and sustaining families in pre-1965 Filipina/o America
5. Stretching the boundaries of Christian respectability, race, and gender during Jim Crow: Chinese American women and the Southern Baptist Church
6. Stepping onstage and breaking ground: Asian American dancers complicate race and gender stereotypes, 1930s-1960s
PART III: NEW CULTURAL FORMATIONS, NEW SELVES. 7. \"She speaks well\": language as performance of Japanese American femininity and social mobility in postwar Hawaiʻi
8. History, identity, and the life course: mixed race Asian American women
9. Ancestral ethics and Sāmoanness: explaining the contemporary Sāmoan American women
PART IV: WARTIMES AND AFTERMATH. 10. Memories of mass incarceration: mobilizing Japanese American women for redress and beyond
11. Refugee lifemaking practices: Southeast Asian women
12. \"Defiant daughters\": the resilience and resistance of 1.5-generation Vietnamese American women
PART V: GLOBALIZATION, WORK, FAMILY, COMMUNITY, ACTIVISM. 13. Precarious labor: Asian immigrant women, 1970s-2010s
14. The backbone of New York City\'s Chinatown: Chinese women and the garment industry, 1950-2009
15. Women\'s agency and cost in migration: Taiwanese American transnational families
16. \"Revolutionary care\" as activism: Filipina nurses and care workers in Chicago, 1965-2016
PART VI: SPACES OF POLITICAL STRUGGLES. 17. The mother\'s tongue: language, women, and the Chamorros of Guam
18. Asian American feminisms and legislative activism: Patsy Takemoto Mink in the US Congress
19. Opening the path to marriage equality: Asian American lesbians reach out to their families and communities
20. Turning points: South Asian feminist responses to gender-based violence and immigration enforcement
PART VII: NEW DIASPORAS, DIVERSE LIVES, EVOLVING IDENTITIES. 21. Locating adoptees in Asian America: Jane Jeong Trenka and Deann Borshay Liem
22. \"Let them attack me for wearing the hijab\": Islam and identity in the lives of Bangladeshi American women
23. Navigating the hyphen: Tongan-American women in academia
PART VIII: GENDER, CULTURAL CHANGE, INTERGENERATIONAL DYNAMICS. 24. Linked lives: Korean American daughters and their aging immigrant Parents
25. Negotiating cultural change: professional Hmong American women
26. Stories and Visions across generations: Khmer American women
Reflections
Acknowledgments
About the contributors
Index.