Research and Reflections on Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement

This book is in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement (JSAAEA) and the fiftieth anniversary of Southeast Asian American refugee resettlement in the United States. Pivotal research articles, reviews, and creative works from past issues of JSAAEA have been selected for this volume to document the history and experiences of Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, and Vietnamese Americans since initial refugee resettlement began in the United States in 1975, as well as the experiences of more recent Southeast Asian immigrant and refugee groups. Reviews of academic books, novels, memoirs, children's books, and motion pictures further highlight Southeast Asian American perspectives and experiences. Creative works, including poetry and short stories by Cambodian, Laotian, Hmong, Vietnamese, Thai, and Burmese American writers, provide additional and often intimate insights and reflections on the Southeast Asian American experience.

INTRODUCTION
1. Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and 50 Years of Southeast Asian American Refugee Resettlement, by Phitsamay S. Uy, Vichet Chhuon, Bryan Thao Worra, Chhany Sak-Humphry, Vikrant Chap, and Wayne E. Wright
RESEARCH ARTICLES
2. Heritage Language Maintenance and Use Among 1.5-Generation Khmer College Students, by Ravy S. Lao and Jin Sook Lee
3. Factors Supporting Academic Engagement Among Cambodian American High School Youth, by Vichet Chhuon, Angela Dosalmas, and Nida Rinthapol
4. Trauma and Second Language Learning Among Laotian Refugees, by Daryl M. Gordon
5. Racism, Schooling, and the Streets: A Critical Analysis of Vietnamese American Youth Gang Formation in Southern California, by Kevin D. Lam
6. Health Perceptions and Practices of Burmese Refugee Families: A Participatory Mixed Methods Study, by Suneeta Kercood and Trish Morita-Mullaney
7. Expanding Definitions of Family: Influences on Second-Generation Lao American College Students' Aspirations, by Malaphone Phommasa
8. Supporting Southeast Asian American Family and Community Engagement for Educational Success, by Phitsamay S. Uy
9. The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses, by Stacey Lee, Choua Xiong, Linda Marie Pheng, and Mai Neng Vang
10. Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs): Serving and Advocating for the Educational Needs of Southeast Asian American Students, by Mike Hoa Nguyen
11. Vietnamese American Women Public School Administrators Leading for Social Justice and Equity, by Jia Grace Liang
12. HMoob Eldership as Pedagogy: Reclaiming HMoob Knowledge as HMoob Education, by Thong Vang
REVIEWS
13. Book Review: Stacey Lee's (2005) Up Against Whiteness: Race, School, and Immigrant Youth, Reviewed by Chang Pu
14. Book Review: Kao Kalia Yang's (2008) The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, Reviewed by Sarah Hansen
15. Book Review: Lac Su's (2009) I Love Yous Are for White People, Reviewed by Quan Manh Ha
16. Book Review: Bic Ngo's (2010) Unresolved Identities: Discourse, Ambivalence, and Urban Immigrant Students, Reviewed by Gilbert C. Park
17. Book Review: Chia Youyee Vang's (2010) Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora, Reviewed by Yang Sao Xiong
18. Book Review: Thanhha Lai's (2011) Inside Out & Back Again, Reviewed by Quan Manh Ha
19. Book Review: Cathy J. Schlund-Vials's (2012) War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work, Reviewed by Quan Tue Tra
20. Book Review: Kevin Lam's (2015) Youth Gangs, Racism, and Schooling: Vietnamese American Youth in a Postcolonial Context, Reviewed by Ezekiel Joubert III
21. Book Review: Children's Books by Kao Kalia Yang: The Shared Room (2020) and The Most Beautiful Thing (2020), Reviewed by Bao Diep
22. Book Review: Cathy Long's (2023) The Cambodian Family: Holocaust Survival, Reviewed by Jalisa Sang
CREATIVE WORKS
23. To Make A Return, by Mai Der Vang
24. the peace generation; the iron chain; and a poem for Con, by Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen
25. When The Mountain Spirit Spoke, by Anchalee Panigabutra-Roberts
26. To Own My Own; and The Last of Her Generation, by Pacyinz Lyfoung
27. The Two Leaders: One Wise and One Foolish, by Ahmay Ya
28. Chanda Says; and Dropping Chanda Off at Nursery School, by Bunkong Tuon
29. Light, by Sengarone Peter Vetsmany
30. Charges Against a Newborn; Unanswered; and For the First Generation, by
Do Nguyen Mai
31. Your American Songbook; and Context Clues, by Sokunthary Svay
32. Day 785, by Koua Mai Yang
33. #34 Luk Lao, by Victoria Gill
34. Lai mi ka si (I am lai mi); Kan i ton tthan lai (We will meet again); Kan lam tti lai (Let us dance together); Thihnak Mei (Death Fire); and The dead had names, by Thang C. Lian
Contributors
Index