The American dream in Vietnamese

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieu, Nhi T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Vietnamese Americans > Ethnic identity.
Vietnamese Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture > Vietnam.
Vietnamese Americans.
Popular culture.
United States.
Vietnam.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Private desires on public display
  • Assimilation and ambivalence: legacies of U.S. military intervention
  • Vietnamese by other means: the overlapping diasporas of Little Saigon
  • Pageantry and nostalgia: beauty contests and the gendered homeland
  • Consuming transcendent media: videos, variety shows, and the new middle class
  • Conclusion: Transnational flows between the diaspora and the homeland.

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