Re: TARGET: SEC: Hmong culture

[Chris Koppenhaver <CHKOPPE@GW.KCKPS.K12.KS.US>]

A friend forwarded this to me, so I'm not sure what other responses you've =
received.  Below is a list of books I've ordered recently.  Some are =
available through a Baker & Taylor or Amazon.com and some I found at =
Shen's Books <http://www.shens.com>.  I haven't had a chance to review =
them to closely, but I think they all offer something good.  A few haven't =
come in yet and I don't have the authors of those right in front of me, =
but I indicate where you can find them.

I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience. =
 Lillian Faderman and Ghia Xiong

Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, =
1942-1992.  Jane Hamilton-Merritt

Hmong: History of a People.  Keith Quincy

Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America.  Sucheng Chan, ed.

The Hmong, 1987-1995.  J. Christina Smith, ed.

The Hmong: Yesterday and Today (Shen's)

The Sky is Falling: An Oral History of the CIA's Evacuation of the Hmong =
from Laos.  Gayle L. Morrison

The Changing Lives of Refugee Hmong Women.  Nancy D. Donnelly

An Introduction to the Hmong (Shen's)

The Hmong (Shen's)

>Does anyone know of a good book about Hmong culture that >is appropriate =
for high school?  If it covered immigration >to the US after the war that =
would be great, but not essential.
>
>Jennifer M. Smith
>Library Media Specialist
>Prairie du Chien High School
>Prairie du Chien, WI
>(608)326-8437; ext. 4125
>smije@pdc.k12.wi.us=20
>


Chris Koppenhaver, Librarian
Wyandotte H.S., Kansas City, KS
(913) 627-7655
chkoppe@gw.kckps.k12.ks.us

In the case of good books,
the point is not to see how many of them you can get through,
but rather how many can get through to you.
                                  --Mortimer J. Adler

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