ENGL 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Hmong Americans, Model Minority, Asian Americans

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1400
• Professor: Mya Poe

Document Summary

Writing from these roots: literacy in hmong american community. Literacy studies interdisciplinary perspectives: psychology, linguistics, history, anthropology: need literary research that combine ethnographic and structural observations that shape local contexts. Interviews and analysis: relied on a network of personal contacts to suggest people to interview, saturation of knowledge = underlying social relations were revealed. Interviews, personal narratives, poetry, songbooks, historical documents, business plans, school essays, screenplay. Passionate attachments : writing and representations: sometimes the subjects reject their traditional identities and give a counter narrative, story told by a scholar about one aspect of hmong experience so must this book be judged . The rhetorical conception: a theoretical framework for literacy development. Chapters 1&2 provide historical background for understanding hmong literacy standard. Chapter 1: hmong history in china and laos, events leading to involvement in vietnam war. Follows migration to southeast asia, encounters with french laotian, us governments.