scholarly journals Perspectives of Queer Hmong Youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 19-26
Author(s):  
J.B. Mayo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The United States ◽  
Queer Youth ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Hmong Americans ◽  
Hmong Culture ◽  
Hmong People

This article highlights some of the tensions that exist for Hmong people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ). It uncovers differences and similarities found between the experiences of queer Hmong youth and the larger population of queer youth living in the United States. Despite the perception that a traditional Hmong culture holds no place for queer Hmong Americans, individuals are finding spaces for acceptance and slowly moving the larger Hmong community to a place of understanding and tolerance. A vital part of this movement was Shades of Yellow (SOY), an organization that supported queer Hmong from its inception in 2005 until the group disbanded in June 2017. The life stories of three of its members inform this study, offering a more nuanced look at the experiences of queer Hmong youth living in the Midwest.

Abrazando Nopales—Prickly Embrace: Undocumented Women’s Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The United States ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
The South ◽  
The U.S

I chose poetic performance narratives to create a provocative piece offering a glimpse of the reality, tragedies, dreams, and hopes lived daily by more than 12 million people in the United States. These individuals are reported as unauthorized, undocumented immigrants by the U.S. Census Bureau. These specific stories were shared and collected ethnographically on the agricultural fields of the South East of the United States. My goal is to have “captured” readers to be seduced into the “uncomfortable” world of undocumented people and have the poems/performance narratives become not only representation of the events but, as Renato Rosaldo said, “the event itself.”

Two lives, two times

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bertram J. Cohler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young People ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Active Participant ◽  
Autobiographical Reasoning

Life stories such as memoirs reflect the interplay of autobiographical reasoning, and collective remembrance at a time and in a place where memoirs are written. Using this perspective for understanding life-writing, I discuss memoirs written by two women who were formerly internees in the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Olga Lengyel (1909–2001) lost her entire family in the camp and wrote her memoir in Paris just after the war. Her account describes the atrocities that she observed with few reflections on her own experiences. Mira Ryczke Kimmelman, (1923–) wrote her memoir more than half a century later as an emigre to the United States after the war where she and her husband raised their children and where she is presently an active participant in the survivor community. Her memoir is written as what Tomkins and McAdams have portrayed as a characteristic American redemptive account of successfully overcoming adversity. Following a happy childhood and suffering through the Shoah, Mira Kimmelman is a generative mentor who lectures on her experiences and leads tours for young people back to her homeland. She is concerned that the next generation be spared the suffering of the Shoah.

scholarly journals Gender and Ethnicity: Life Stories of Jewish-American Immigrant Women in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-34
Author(s):  
Anca-Luminiţa Iancu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Historical Societies ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Autobiographical Accounts

Abstract In the first half of the twentieth century, immigrants left oral and written testimonies of their experience in the United States, many of them housed in various ethnic-American archives or published by ethnic historical societies. In 1942, the Yiddish Scientific Institute in New York City encouraged Jewish-American immigrants to share their life stories as part of a written essay contest. In 2006, several of these autobiographical accounts were translated and published by Jocelyn Cohen and Daniel Soyer in a volume entitled My Future Is in America. Thus, this essay examines the autobiographies of two Jewish-American immigrant women, Minnie Goldstein and Rose Schoenfeld, with a view to comparing how their gendered identity (as women and as members of their families) has impacted their choices and lives in their home countries and in the United States in the first part of the twentieth century.

Controllable Pitch Propellers in the DD-963: A Status Report

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. E. Ridley ◽  
R. C. Case
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
New Class ◽  
Propeller Design ◽  
Design And Manufacture

United States seapower in the 70’s is synonymous with a new class of destroyers developed to maintain America’s strength on the world’s seas. When the DD963 joins the fleet in 1974, she will be unlike any destroyer ever to fly the United States flag. She will be bigger, faster, and more sophisticated. As a vital part of the main propulsion plant of this ship, controllable pitch propellers were used in conjunction with marine gas turbines. This paper addresses the description and operation of the CP propellers, and various improvements in the “state of the art” of propeller design and manufacture which have been incorporated in the ship.

To Survive on This Shore

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (139) ◽  
pp. 211-223
Author(s):  
Jess T. Dugan ◽  
Vanessa Fabbre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Nonconforming ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender

Abstract For over five years, photographer Jess T. Dugan and social worker Vanessa Fabbre traveled throughout the United States creating To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults. Seeking subjects whose lived experiences exist at the complex intersections of gender identity, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, socioeconomic class, and geographic location, they documented the life stories of this important but largely underrepresented group of older adults. The resulting photographs and interviews provide a nuanced view into the struggles and joys of growing older as a transgender person and offer a poignant reflection on what it means to live authentically despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

Hmong ‘Marriage by Capture’ in the United States of America and Ukuthwala in South Africa: Unfolding Discussions

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Mwambene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
Minority Community ◽  
Hmong People ◽  
Hmong Marriage

‘Marriage by capture’ among the Hmong people in the United States of America and ukuthwala in South Africa both take the form of the mock abduction of a young woman for the purpose of a customary marriage. The noteworthy point about these two customary marriage practices is that, although Hmong marriage by capture takes place in the context of a minority community in a liberal state, and ukuthwala occurs in a postcolonial state, courts in these jurisdictions convert these marriage practices to the common law offences of rape, assault, and abduction. This article reflects on the accused-centred approach in the case of People v Moua, in which the court invoked the cultural defence, and the victim-centred approach in Jezile v S, which severed cultural values from the rights of the woman. It questions whether the two communities in question, in their respective liberal and postcolonial settings, influence the attitudes of the courts in cases involving rape, assault, and abduction charges. The main argument proffered is that both approaches may encourage communities to continue marriage abduction practices without bringing them to the attention of investigative organs, with adverse human rights implications for the women and girls affected. The ultimate purpose of this conversation, therefore, is to show how the approaches of the courts to the recognition or non-recognition of these customary practices affect the rights of girls and women who encounter institutions of law that alienate people belonging to minority cultural groups, and often perpetuate injustice.

scholarly journals Queer Youth and the Culture Wars: From Classroom to Courtroom in Australia, Canada and the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 135-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Meyer ◽  
David Stader
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
Queer Youth
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