Asian American youth : culture, identity, and ethnicity / edited by Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-339) and index.

1. Introduction : the making of culture, identity, and ethnicity among Asian American youth / Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee -- 2. Coming of age at the turn of the twenty-first century : a demographic profile of Asian American youth / Min Zhou -- 3. Intermarriage and multiracial identification : the Asian American experience and implications for changing color lines / Jennifer Lee and Frank D. Bean -- 4. Rizal Day queen contests, Filipino nationalism, and femininity / Arleen de Vera -- 5. Nisei daughters' courtship and romance in Los Angeles before World War II / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- 6. Hell's a poppin' : Asian American women's youth consumer culture / Shirley Jennifer Lim -- 7. Shifting ethnic identity and consciousness : U.-S.-born Chinese American youth in the 1930s and 1950s / Gloria Heyung Chun -- 8. Instant Karma : the commercialization of Asian Indian culture / Sabeen Sandhu -- 9. Transnational cultural practices of Chinese immigrant youth and parachute kids / Christy Chiang-Hom -- 10. Reinventing the wheel : import car racing in Southern California / Victoria Namkung -- 11. "No lattes here" : Asian American youth and the cyber cafe obsession / Mary Yu Danico and Linda Trinh Vo -- 12. Filipinotown and the DJ scene : cultural expression and identity affirmation of Filipino American youth in Los Angeles / Lakandiwa M. de Leon -- 13. A shortcut to the American dream? Vietnamese youth gangs in Little Saigon / James Diego Vigil, Steve C. Yun and Jesse Cheng -- 14. Lost in the fray : Cambodian American youth in Providence, Rhode Island / Sody Lay -- 15. Made in the U.S.A. : second-generation Korean American campus evangelicals / Rebecca Y. Kim -- 16. Performing race, negotiating identity : Asian American professional actors in Hollywood / Nancy Wang Yuen -- 17. Searching for home : voices of gay Asian American youth in West Hollywood / Mark Tristan Ng -- 18. Marriage dilemmas : partner choices and constraints for Korean Americans in New York City / Sara S. Lee -- 19. A commentary on young Asian American activists from the 1960s to the present / William Wei -- 20. Conclusion : reflections, thoughts, and directions for future research / Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou.

"Asian American Youth is the first collection to address a wide number of important topics about Asian American youth as a distinctive group. The Asian-origin population constitutes the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the US today. As a consequence, Asian American youth are quickly growing into their own subculture and carving out their own identities in American culture. Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America."--Publisher description.

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