By Bindi V. Shah
Laotian Daughters makes a speciality of second-generation environmental justice activists in Richmond, California. Bindi Shah's path-breaking ebook charts those younger women's efforts to enhance the degraded stipulations of their group and explores the methods their activism and political practices withstand the unfavorable stereotypes of race, type, and gender linked to their ethnic staff. utilizing ethnographic observations, interviews, concentration teams, and archival facts on their participation in Asian early life Advocatesoa adolescence management improvement projectoShah analyzes the kids' mobilization for social rights, cross-race kinfolk, and negotiations of gender and inter-generational family. She additionally addresses problems with ethnic formative years, immigration, and citizenship and the way those form nationwide identities. Shah eventually reveals that citizenship as a social perform isn't just an grownup event and that ethnicity is an ongoing strength within the political and social identities of second-generation Laotians.
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I interviewed staff members individually at the APEN and LOP offices. In addition, I facilitated four focus groups, one with each of the different cohorts of girls in the program. All the interviews and focus groups were recorded, transcribed, and coded using a grounded theory approach. Throughout the book, quotations from the girls come from these interviews and focus groups as well as other written material they produced. I participated in and/or observed all games, projects, discussions, trainings, field trips, protests, media events, and end-of-summer graduations, as well as a workshop for Asian and Pacific Islander teens in the San Francisco Bay Area and APEN’s fifth anniversary celebration.
13 More than 11 million pounds of toxic, explosive, and corrosive chemicals are stored at the refinery. 15 These toxic emissions, along with high levels of flaring, have continued into the twenty-first century, and in 2005 Chevron Products Company, along with two other refineries, accounted for 80 percent of toxic releases in Contra Costa County (Pontecorvo 2008). The Environmental Protection Agency reported almost three hundred highly toxic spills from Chevron’s Richmond refinery between 2001 and 2003 and identified the refinery as in “significant noncompliance” for air pollution standards (APEN 2008).
According to Rumbaut (1995:248), in the 1990 census over 50 percent of Laotians lived in linguistically isolated households, meaning that no one over the age of fourteen in that household spoke only English or spoke it very well. S. society operate. In addition to growing up in disadvantaged socioeconomic circumstances, second-generation Laotians face gang violence in Contra Costa County. Almost all my respondents mentioned that their brothers and male cousins and friends were in gangs or had become victims of the violence that pervades parts of Richmond.
