Voting Together: How Hmong Americans Break Political Ground

Date
Mon November 13th 2017, 12:00 - 1:30pm PST
Location
Building 360, Conference Room
Event Sponsor
Humanities Center, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Critical Orientations to Race and Ethnicity (CORE)
Voting Together: How Hmong Americans Break Political Ground
Speaker: Dr. Carolyn Wong

The Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War. Forty years on, they have made a notable impact in American political life. Dr. Carolyn Wong analyzes how the Hmong came to pursue politics as a path to advancement in the United States. Drawing on interviews with community leaders, refugees, and the children of immigrants, Wong shows that intergenerational mechanisms of social voting underlie the participation of Hmong Americans.

Professor Wong is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University and a Research Associate at the Institute for Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. 

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