HMONG STUDIES NEWSLETTER, FALL 2019
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-newsletter.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Most of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States. Hmong Cultural Center also includes a comprehensive museum that teaches visitors about Hmong culture and history and folk arts. (https://www.hmonghistorycenter.org/)
ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: The Hmong Studies Newsletter has since 2001 provided a very consistent source of up-to-date information about new works in Hmong Studies and Hmong-related research resources. To access back issues of this online publication dating back to 2001 visit: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-newsletter.html
Hmong Studies Newsletter Editor: Mark E. Pfeifer, PhD
ABOUT THE HMONG STUDIES INTERNET RESOURCE CENTER:
The Hmong Studies Internet Resource Center (www.hmongstudies.org) is the online home of the Hmong Studies Journal academic journal. This unique scholarly site also contains extensive bibliographies in Hmong Studies as well as census data and an online research paper library.
Most of the Hmong Studies articles, books and dissertations listed in this newsletter and on the website may be found at the Hmong Resource Center Library (www.hmonglibrary.org) at the Hmong Cultural Center in Saint Paul, the largest depository of Hmong Studies academic journal articles and graduate theses and dissertations in the United States. Hmong Cultural Center also includes a comprehensive museum that teaches visitors about Hmong culture and history and folk arts. (https://www.hmonghistorycenter.org/)
RECENT WORKS IN HMONG STUDIES:
Books/Theses/Reports
Tchay Her. (2019). The Underrepresentation of Hmong American College Students in STEM Majors. EdD Dissertation, California State University, Fresno. This graduate research study examined the perspectives of Hmong American college students in California with regards to their career decision making and views of STEM.
Rocky Lo. (2019). Lived Experiences of Hmong Refugees in America. PhD Dissertation, Walden University. The purpose of this graduate study was to assess Hmong refugees’ lived experiences in America using Grove and Torbion’s theory of sojourners as the theoretical framework.Specifically, the researcher addresses the following questions, what are the cultural experiences of Hmong refugees living in America? and how have acculturated challenges constructed Hmong refugees lived experiences?
Maliya Lor. (2019). In the Company of Hmong Women: Sustaining Community ties through an Eggroll Fundraiser. MA Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles. This graduate study investigates how Hmong women residing in Wisconsin have gained valuable knowledge and skills in their church eggroll fundraisers as they also support community ties as first-generation Hmong American women.
James Misfeldt. (2019). Acculturation in a Community Garden: The Shifting Role of a Hmong Garden in Eastern Wisconsin. M.S. Thesis, University of Alabama. This gradute thesis utilizes a cultural geographic approach to present an ethnography of Sheboygan’s Hmong community garden.
Mai Houa Thao. (2019). Perceptions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Hmong Community. MSW Thesis, California State University, Fresno. This graduate study uses a phenomenological approach to explore the perceptions of Child Sexual Abuse held by the members of the Hmong community in Fresno.
Cindy Vang. (2019). Loneliness Experiences of Hmong Older Adults: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study. PhD Dissertation, Arizona State University. This graduate study investigates to understand the concept of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, explores the premigration, displacement, and postmigration experiences of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, and assesses how community-dwelling Hmong older adults cope with loneliness.
Mai Ye Vang. (2019). Reframing the Concept of Parental Involvement in Primary and Secondary Education: Community Cultural Wealth in the Hmong Community. EdD Dissertation, Mills College. This qualitative graduate study investigates Hmong parents’beliefs about schooling and education and the challenges Hmong parents and educators experience in a school context.
Khang Yang Xiong. (2019). The Disappearing Hmong Language: The Effects of English on Hmong Children's Heritage Language and Their Relationship With Their Parents. EdD Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder. This graduate study examines ways in which Hmong youth and their families experience and interpret the use of English in their lives and how this impacts their use and maintenance of the Hmong language. The author also explores how the use of English affects the identity of Hmong youth and relationships between Hmong students, their parents and families.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Katrin B. Anacker. (2019). "Analyzing Rates of Seriously Delinquent Mortgages in Asian Census Tracts in the United States." Urban Affairs Review. 55(2) 616–638. This article assesses the rates of seriously delinquent mortgages for Census tracts in all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), differentiating among different Asian subgroups. The author's findings show that neighborhoods with Hmong, Laotian, and Cambodian households had relatively high rates of seriously delinquent mortgages, whereas neighborhoods with Chinese, Japanese, and Pakistani households had relatively low rates of seriously delinquent mortgages.
Ian Baird. (2019). "Hmollywood Movies: 1.5 Generation Hmong Americans and Transnational Film Production in Thailand." SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 34(2): 366-396. Khek Noi sub-district, Phetchabun Province in Thailand has become a center of Hmong film-making. The author of this article engages with the literature on transnational cinema and argues that there are transnational and globalized influences on the Hmong film-making industry as well as place-based ones.
Jenny Chio. (2019). "The Miao Festival Crowd Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in “Minority” China." Current Anthropology. 60(4): 536-558. The author of this article investigates a series of interlocking concerns in the anthropology of crowds, festivals, and media publics by taking the mediation of ethnic Miao festival crowds as an analytical focus. The author argues that the visual objectification of Miao festival crowds in local videos "concretizes a distinctly ethnic public based on a body politics of presence."
Jean Marc Dubost, et al. (2019). "Hmong herbal medicine and herbalists in Lao PDR: pharmacopeia and knowledge transmission." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 15:27 (16 pages). Objectives of this study were to describe and characterize Hmong pharmacopeia, and to assess how medicinal plant knowledge is transmitted and spread among Hmong in Lao PDR, in order to understand whether this knowledge base is under threat.
Marla Eisenberg et al. (2019). "Family weight teasing, ethnicity and acculturation: Associations with wellbeing among Latinx, Hmong, and Somali Adolescents." Journal of Psychosomatic Research 122 (2019) 88–93. This study assesses the prevalence of weight-based teasing by family members and associations with unhealthy weight control behaviors, body satisfaction, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms among adolescents from three immigrant communities (Latinx, Hmong, and Somali).
Yang Lor (2019) "Ties that Bind: Family Obligations as Immediate and Anticipatory Obstacles." Race, Ethnicity and Education. 22(5): 666-682. Based on a study of 30 low-income Hmong American high school students, the author argues that poverty can create conditions in which family ties bind students to gender-based expectations and obligations that prevent them from pursuing opportunities for social mobility.
Amanda Trofholz. (2019). Description of the home food environment in Black, White, Hmong, Latino, Native American and Somali homes with 5–7-year-old children. Public Health Nutrition: 22(5), 882–893. The authors of this Minnesota-based study conducted research in order to categorize the home food environment and dietary intake of young children (5–7 years old) from racially/ethnically diverse households including Hmong Americans using objectively collected data.
Books/Theses/Reports
Tchay Her. (2019). The Underrepresentation of Hmong American College Students in STEM Majors. EdD Dissertation, California State University, Fresno. This graduate research study examined the perspectives of Hmong American college students in California with regards to their career decision making and views of STEM.
Rocky Lo. (2019). Lived Experiences of Hmong Refugees in America. PhD Dissertation, Walden University. The purpose of this graduate study was to assess Hmong refugees’ lived experiences in America using Grove and Torbion’s theory of sojourners as the theoretical framework.Specifically, the researcher addresses the following questions, what are the cultural experiences of Hmong refugees living in America? and how have acculturated challenges constructed Hmong refugees lived experiences?
Maliya Lor. (2019). In the Company of Hmong Women: Sustaining Community ties through an Eggroll Fundraiser. MA Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles. This graduate study investigates how Hmong women residing in Wisconsin have gained valuable knowledge and skills in their church eggroll fundraisers as they also support community ties as first-generation Hmong American women.
James Misfeldt. (2019). Acculturation in a Community Garden: The Shifting Role of a Hmong Garden in Eastern Wisconsin. M.S. Thesis, University of Alabama. This gradute thesis utilizes a cultural geographic approach to present an ethnography of Sheboygan’s Hmong community garden.
Mai Houa Thao. (2019). Perceptions of Child Sexual Abuse in the Hmong Community. MSW Thesis, California State University, Fresno. This graduate study uses a phenomenological approach to explore the perceptions of Child Sexual Abuse held by the members of the Hmong community in Fresno.
Cindy Vang. (2019). Loneliness Experiences of Hmong Older Adults: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study. PhD Dissertation, Arizona State University. This graduate study investigates to understand the concept of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, explores the premigration, displacement, and postmigration experiences of loneliness among community-dwelling Hmong older adults, and assesses how community-dwelling Hmong older adults cope with loneliness.
Mai Ye Vang. (2019). Reframing the Concept of Parental Involvement in Primary and Secondary Education: Community Cultural Wealth in the Hmong Community. EdD Dissertation, Mills College. This qualitative graduate study investigates Hmong parents’beliefs about schooling and education and the challenges Hmong parents and educators experience in a school context.
Khang Yang Xiong. (2019). The Disappearing Hmong Language: The Effects of English on Hmong Children's Heritage Language and Their Relationship With Their Parents. EdD Dissertation, University of Colorado, Boulder. This graduate study examines ways in which Hmong youth and their families experience and interpret the use of English in their lives and how this impacts their use and maintenance of the Hmong language. The author also explores how the use of English affects the identity of Hmong youth and relationships between Hmong students, their parents and families.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Katrin B. Anacker. (2019). "Analyzing Rates of Seriously Delinquent Mortgages in Asian Census Tracts in the United States." Urban Affairs Review. 55(2) 616–638. This article assesses the rates of seriously delinquent mortgages for Census tracts in all Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs), differentiating among different Asian subgroups. The author's findings show that neighborhoods with Hmong, Laotian, and Cambodian households had relatively high rates of seriously delinquent mortgages, whereas neighborhoods with Chinese, Japanese, and Pakistani households had relatively low rates of seriously delinquent mortgages.
Ian Baird. (2019). "Hmollywood Movies: 1.5 Generation Hmong Americans and Transnational Film Production in Thailand." SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia. 34(2): 366-396. Khek Noi sub-district, Phetchabun Province in Thailand has become a center of Hmong film-making. The author of this article engages with the literature on transnational cinema and argues that there are transnational and globalized influences on the Hmong film-making industry as well as place-based ones.
Jenny Chio. (2019). "The Miao Festival Crowd Mediations of Presence, Body Politics, and an Ethnic Public in “Minority” China." Current Anthropology. 60(4): 536-558. The author of this article investigates a series of interlocking concerns in the anthropology of crowds, festivals, and media publics by taking the mediation of ethnic Miao festival crowds as an analytical focus. The author argues that the visual objectification of Miao festival crowds in local videos "concretizes a distinctly ethnic public based on a body politics of presence."
Jean Marc Dubost, et al. (2019). "Hmong herbal medicine and herbalists in Lao PDR: pharmacopeia and knowledge transmission." Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 15:27 (16 pages). Objectives of this study were to describe and characterize Hmong pharmacopeia, and to assess how medicinal plant knowledge is transmitted and spread among Hmong in Lao PDR, in order to understand whether this knowledge base is under threat.
Marla Eisenberg et al. (2019). "Family weight teasing, ethnicity and acculturation: Associations with wellbeing among Latinx, Hmong, and Somali Adolescents." Journal of Psychosomatic Research 122 (2019) 88–93. This study assesses the prevalence of weight-based teasing by family members and associations with unhealthy weight control behaviors, body satisfaction, self-esteem, and depressive symptoms among adolescents from three immigrant communities (Latinx, Hmong, and Somali).
Yang Lor (2019) "Ties that Bind: Family Obligations as Immediate and Anticipatory Obstacles." Race, Ethnicity and Education. 22(5): 666-682. Based on a study of 30 low-income Hmong American high school students, the author argues that poverty can create conditions in which family ties bind students to gender-based expectations and obligations that prevent them from pursuing opportunities for social mobility.
Amanda Trofholz. (2019). Description of the home food environment in Black, White, Hmong, Latino, Native American and Somali homes with 5–7-year-old children. Public Health Nutrition: 22(5), 882–893. The authors of this Minnesota-based study conducted research in order to categorize the home food environment and dietary intake of young children (5–7 years old) from racially/ethnically diverse households including Hmong Americans using objectively collected data.
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES VOLUME 19, ISSUE 2
At the end of December 2018, the Saint Paul-based Hmong Studies Journal published volume 19, Issue 2.
Articles in Volume 19, Issue 2 include the following:
Research Articles
End of Life Care for the Hmong Population: A Cultural Competency Educational Program for Hospice Nurses by Margaret Bjelica and Julie Ann Nauser
The Influence of Hmong Americans’ Acculturation and Cultural Identity on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Mental Health Care and Services in Comparison to Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices by Ethan Teng Xiong, Barry Dauphin and Carol Weisfeld
Hmong College Student Perceptions and Experiences with Mercury Containing Skin Lightening Products in St. Paul Minnesota by Susi Keefe, Abdullahi Abdulle, Kim Holzer, Nadia Mohammed, Bettina Schneider, Alexa Vorderbruggen and Michael Xiong
Sex Education for Hmong American Youth: Challenges and Lessons Learned by Nancy Lo, Zha Blong Xiong, Laurie L. Meschke, Vern Xiong, Kia Kehrer and Mary Xiong
Book Reviews
Review and Guide to Hmong Songs of Memory: Traditional Secular and Sacred Hmong Music. Essays, Images, and Film by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Review of Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam by Catherine Falk
Rethinking the Lives, Experiences and Behaviors of Hmong Women in Regard to their Ability to Achieve Empowerment and Agency and Finding Happiness. Review of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women by Kao-Ly Yang
View the Hmong Studies Journal Volume 19, Issue 2 Press Release here:
http://hmongstudies.org/HSJPressRelease19.2.pdf
View Volume 19, Issue 2 here: https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1922018.html
Articles in Volume 19, Issue 2 include the following:
Research Articles
End of Life Care for the Hmong Population: A Cultural Competency Educational Program for Hospice Nurses by Margaret Bjelica and Julie Ann Nauser
The Influence of Hmong Americans’ Acculturation and Cultural Identity on Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Mental Health Care and Services in Comparison to Traditional Health Beliefs and Practices by Ethan Teng Xiong, Barry Dauphin and Carol Weisfeld
Hmong College Student Perceptions and Experiences with Mercury Containing Skin Lightening Products in St. Paul Minnesota by Susi Keefe, Abdullahi Abdulle, Kim Holzer, Nadia Mohammed, Bettina Schneider, Alexa Vorderbruggen and Michael Xiong
Sex Education for Hmong American Youth: Challenges and Lessons Learned by Nancy Lo, Zha Blong Xiong, Laurie L. Meschke, Vern Xiong, Kia Kehrer and Mary Xiong
Book Reviews
Review and Guide to Hmong Songs of Memory: Traditional Secular and Sacred Hmong Music. Essays, Images, and Film by Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
Review of Musical Minorities: The Sounds of Hmong Ethnicity in Northern Vietnam by Catherine Falk
Rethinking the Lives, Experiences and Behaviors of Hmong Women in Regard to their Ability to Achieve Empowerment and Agency and Finding Happiness. Review of Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women by Kao-Ly Yang
View the Hmong Studies Journal Volume 19, Issue 2 Press Release here:
http://hmongstudies.org/HSJPressRelease19.2.pdf
View Volume 19, Issue 2 here: https://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-1922018.html
COMPREHENSIVE AND EXPANDED HMONG STUDIES RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHIES ARE ONLINE:
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few months with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-publications-from-2007-present.html
Doing research on a Hmong Studies research topic? More than 40 comprehensive and frequently updated online subject bibliographies of Hmong Studies works are available at the following link: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-bibliographies.html
A 2007-Present research bibliography is updated every few months with information about the latest research publications in Hmong Studies, online links to full-text are included where applicable:
http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hmong-studies-publications-from-2007-present.html
