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Asian America : Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Pawan Dhingra, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social hierarchies (of race, gender, and sexuality), work, education, family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements, and politics. With vivid examples and lucid discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors demonstrate the contributions of the discipline of sociology to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa. In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global understanding of the Asian experience, as it has become increasingly transnational and diasporic. Bridging sociology and the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, and uniquely placing them in dialogue with one another, this engaging text will be welcome in undergraduate and graduate sociology courses such as race and et

Who reads Asian America : Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives?

Author

Pawan Dhingra, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez

Publisher

Polity Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745647043

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology