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The whispering cloth : a refugee's story
The story of a young Hmong girl living in a Thailand refugee camp.
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Protestantism among the Hmong People in the Mountainous Region of Contemporary Northern Vietnam
Since the 1980s, there has been a considerable change in the religious life of the Hmong ethnic communities from the mountainous provinces of northern Vietnam—specifically, their conversion to Protestantism. Protestantism was introduced into the communities under a modified model known as Vàng Trứ/Vàng Chứ through the endeavors of the Far East Broadcasting Company. From 1993 to 2004, the number of Protestant followers among these communities increased sharply. Today, the mountainous northern area of Vietnam is home to 300,000 Hmong Protestants of various denominations. This study, based on textual analysis, participant observations, in-depth interviews, and field trips, seeks to explore the Hmong conversion to Protestantism. The focus is on issues relating to the growth of Protestantism and Protestant influence on the Hmong people from 1987 (widely understood to be the beginning of Protestantism in the Hmong community) to the present day.
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Re-membering Culture
The untold stories of resilience in Hmong American
education Re-membering Culture is a deep
exploration of the intricate dynamics of cultural memory and
education, centering the experiences of Hmong American students and
educators. Arguing that the school, as a product of coloniality,
perpetuates the marginalization and erasure of non-Western
epistemologies, author Bic Ngo sheds light on the subtle yet
impactful process of structured forgetting within the American
education system. This politics of forgetting, in turn, contributes
to the fragmentation of Hmong cultural heritage, identity, and
community.
Based on a high school in an urban center with a considerable
Hmong immigrant community, Ngo's work draws on extensive
ethnographic research with Hmong American community leaders, school
administrators, parents, teachers, staff, and high school students
to understand how they navigate the terrain of Western pedagogy
while attempting to retain and preserve Hmong knowledge systems.
Exploring a range of school experiences, Ngo traverses students'
challenges in balancing school with family life and the everyday
cultural racism encountered in the classroom as well as grassroots
efforts to preserve culture, including the establishment of a Hmong
Cultural Club.
Highlighting these experiences and voices, Ngo provides a
nuanced understanding of the challenges Hmong Americans face within
an assimilationist society while contesting the dominant
anti-immigrant narratives of refugee suffering and poverty. Through
these practices of (re)storytelling, resurgence, and refusal, she
underscores the agency of the Hmong American community,
illuminating how the critical consciousness fostered by
re-membering serves as a powerful tool in confronting white
hegemonic ideologies in education.
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Refining the genetic structure and admixture history of Hmong-Mien populations
Background
Recent studies have shed light on the unique linguistic and genetic characteristics of Hmong-Mien speakers. However, the underlying genetic structure and admixture events that shape their genetic diversity remain inadequately elucidated.
Results
Here, we co-analyzed newly generated genome-wide data from 164 individuals in Guizhou Province with published data from geographically proximate HM speakers using both allele frequency-based and haplotype-based methods. We unveiled fine-scale genetic substructure within HM speakers in southwest China, emphasizing distinct genetic differentiation between the Miao and Yao branches. Notably, Guangxi GaoHuaHua individuals showed close affiliation with the Yao branch, indicating a divergence time predating approximately 500 years ago. Besides, southwestern HM speakers exhibited an admixture pattern of indigenous Hmong and BaikuYao-like ancestry with minor contributions from neighboring populations like Tai-Kadai and Sino-Tibetan speakers in recent history. We finally identified the dominant paternal and diverse maternal lineages of HM speakers, implying a rich genetic tapestry and intricate historical migrations.
Conclusions
Our study provided new insights into the genetic formation and admixture events that significantly shaped the genomic diversity of present-day HM speakers in southwest China.
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Hmong Spirituality, Nature, and Place
In this article, I show how the Hmong religion can provide the basis of a novel version of non-human-centered environmentalism. I do this by outlining some of the core doctrines in the Hmong religion and showing what they imply about the value of nature. I then situate the view that is implied by these doctrines into the traditional Western environmental ethics literature on the value of nature. In particular, I argue that the Hmong religion provides a view in environmental ethics that is non-anthropocentric, individualistic, non-egalitarian, and non-biocentric.
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Fly until you die : an oral history of Hmong pilots in the Vietnam War
\"Fly Until You Die\": An Oral History of Hmong Pilots in the Vietnam War exposes the best kept secret in the American war in Southeast Asia by exploring the experiences of ethnic minority pilots trained by the US Air Force and their efforts to make sense of war decades later.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Development in Spirit
As state economic policies promote integration under a single logic
of modernist development, many impoverished groups remain on the
margins. Development in Spirit explores the practices
employed by communities on the fringes of such nation-building
projects. Using an everyday political economy lens, Seb Rumsby
demonstrates how seemingly powerless actors actively engage with
larger forces, shaping their experience of development in ways that
are underexamined but have far-reaching consequences. Following
state-led market reforms in the 1980s, Vietnam experienced stunning
economic transformation. But for the Hmong communities of the
country's north and central highlands, the benefits proved elusive.
Instead, the Hmong people have pursued their own alternative paths
to development. Rumsby shows how mass conversion to Christianity
led to a case of \"unplanned development\" that put the Hmong on a
trajectory of simultaneous integration into the market economy and
resistance to state authority. Many of the strategies community
members employ are tied to the Christianization of everyday life.
Religious actors play complex and often contradictory roles in
facilitating networks of exchange, challenging or enforcing gender
norms, promoting communalism and enforcing discipline, and shaping
local ideas about progress. They are influenced by national and
transnational religious networks, especially US-produced radio
broadcasts by Hmong American Christians and local converts. This
compelling account provides fresh theoretical and empirical
insights into the interplay of religion, neoliberal development,
and marketization across the world.
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