Language, identity, and stereotype among Southeast Asian American youth: The Other Asian. Angela Reyes. Mahwah, NJ; London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: This book breaks new ground by virtue of its locus of investigation: a group of young people whose ethnic backgrounds have been, for the most part, neglected by mainstream post-war Asian American studies (not to mention linguistics), i.e. those from immigrant families who originate from areas of mainland Southeast Asia, such as Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.These groups are marginalized as the 'Other Asian' , a term proposed by Sokla, one of Reyes' main participants in the study.The impetus for this study came from a long-term film production project the author was involved in at an Asian American community arts center located in a South Philadelphia neighborhood, an area where many Southeast Asian immigrant families have settled.The project took the form of an afterschool program, where students from nearby high schools could participate in an opportunity that was an alternative to gang activity and other dangerous situations.Chapter 1 discusses the emergence of the Southeast Asian identity that is the focus of investigation in this study.Reyes first discusses two stereotypes that
Source: Gender and Language
Author: Edmundo Luna
Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2163733203