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Shows how Filipino Americans counter exclusion by actively engaging in alternative practices of community building. This book presents an ethnographic study of Filipino American communities in Los Angeles and San Diego that presents a multi-disciplinary cultural analysis of the relationship between ethnic identity and social space.

Spotlighting Asian Americans on both sides of the motion picture camera, this book examines the aesthetics, material circumstances, and politics of a broad spectrum of films released in the last thirty years. It focuses in particular on the growing presence of Asian Americans as makers of independent films and cross-over successes.

Through innovative studies of community politics, gender, family and sexual relations, cultural events, and other sites central to the formation of ethnic and citizen identity, this title reconfigures ethnography according to Asian American experiences in the US. It includes 11 essays that consider traditional models for ethnographic research.

Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label "Oriental" and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans.

Presents an account of how Chinese are being smuggled into the United States, and what happens to the people who risk their lives to reach Gold Mountain. This book shows how the problem of human smuggling will continue for as long as China's citizens are deprived of fundamental human rights and economic security.