HMONG STUDIES NEWSLETTER, Winter 2017
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.
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.
RECENT WORKS IN HMONG STUDIES:
Books/Theses/Reports
Mai Soua Lee-Cha. (2017). Cultural Capital, Social Identity and Self Efficacy: Impact on the Academic Achievement of Professional Hmong Women. PhD Dissertation. California State University, Fresno. The author of this graduate study investigated changes that Hmong women, who are pioneering diverse careers, are experiencing. The objective of this narrative research study was to investigate 10 professional Hmong women’s journeys toward academic achievement.
Mai Ger Lor. (2017). Hmong Community Perceptions on End of Life Care. MSW Project. California State University, Sacramento. The purpose of this graduate project was to assess the level of awareness the Hmong community has about end of life services in attempt to understand the best approach to address the barriers of this topic. The participants’ perception of learning and speaking about end of life services was evaluated in attempt to understand the factors hindering individuals from utilizing care services for themselves and their family members.
Mai Chao Thao. (2017). A Narrative Study on the Experiences of Hmong Female College Students. PhD Dissertation. Drexel University. This graduate study explores through narrative inquiry the educational experiences of Hmong American women in college or university focusing on understanding how their gender and cultural roles influence their educational experiences.
Kao Lee Vang and Pa Foua Vang. (2017). Factors Affecting Sacramento State Hmong Students' 4-Year Graduate Rate. MSW Project. California State University, Sacramento. This research project investigates the issue of delayed graduation among Hmong students at California State University, Sacramento by specifically exploring factors that hinder Hmong students from successfully graduating within four years of matriculating into the university as first-time freshmen.
Sao Vang. (2017). A Phenomenological Study of the Perceptions of Hmong Licensed Family Child Care Providers on Process Features of Child Care Quality. PhD Dissertation. Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
This graduate study utilized a phenomenological research design to investigate how process features
of child care quality are experienced in Hmong licensed family child care settings.
Yuepeng Vang. (2017). The Experiences of Hmong Men Who Marry as Adolescents. MSW Thesis. California State University, Stanislaus. This qualitative graduate study explores the issues that arise for adolescent Hmong
males who were culturally married under the legal age of eighteen, as well as the resulting pressures they experienced due to competing expectations between traditional Hmong culture and the American context in which they live.
Chong Yang. (2017). In the Shadows of Over representation: HMong Men and Engineering Education. MA Thesis. California State University, Sacramento. The author of this graduate study was interested in the experiences of Hmong males in engineering education programs given the under representation of racial minorities and the high representation of Asians more generally in STEM programs in higher education. The author investigated 8 cohorts of HMong men and their participation and persistence in engineering education at a minority serving institution (California State University, Sacramento).
Kou Yang. (2017). The Making of Hmong America: Forty Years after the Secret War. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. This monograph presents an overview of the Hmong American experience. The author begins by documenting Hmong involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. He then uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past four decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Learn more about this work here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498546461/The-Making-of-Hmong-America-Forty-Years-after-the-Secret-War#
Mai See Yang. (2017). The Impacts of Life Events on Depression in Later Life Among Older Hmong Immigrants. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Boston. The overall findings for this graduate study suggested that older Hmong adults living in the US have experienced stressors and depression throughout the lifespan (i.e., pre-migration,transition, and post-migration). The desire for social connection and support to help ease
the experiences of war, diaspora, and post-migration adjustment was a common theme with implications for mental health.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Aime Agather, et al. (2017). "Working with the Hmong Population in a Genetics Setting: Genetic Counselor Perspectives." Journal of Genetic Counseling (26):1388–1400. The Hmong language lacks words for many familiar Western medical genetic concepts which may impact genetic counseling sessions with individuals of Hmong ancestry who have limited English proficiency. To study this interaction, a qualitative, semi-structured interview was designed by the authors of this study to address genetic counselors’ experiences of genetic counseling sessions working with individuals with Hmong ancestry.
Chrisa Arcan, Kathleen A Culhane-Pera, Shannon Pergament, Maira Rosas-Lee and Mai Bao Xiong (2017). "Somali, Latino and Hmong parents’ perceptions and approaches about raising healthy-weight children: a community-based participatory research study." Public Health Nutrition. doi:10.1017/S1368980017001719
The authors of this research study investigated perceptions of childhood body weight, approaches to raising healthy children and desires for supportive programs for Somali, Latino and Hmong parents in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.
Gavin Bart (2017). "Ethnic differences in psychosocial factors in methadone maintenance: Hmong versus non-Hmong." Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2017.1371656. The author of this study assessed psychosocial factors in 76 Hmong and 130 non-Hmong on methadone maintenance for at
least two months in a single urban methadone maintenance clinic. Assessments utilized included the Addiction Severity Index 5th Edition, the Symptom Checklist-90, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders.
Melissa May Borja (2017). "Speaking of Spirits: Oral History, Religious Change, and the Seen and Unseen Worlds of Hmong Americans." Oral History Review, 44(1) 1-18. Through the perspective provided by oral history, this essay focuses on the religious changes experienced by Hmong Americans. Hmong decisions to adopt Christianity or return to indigenous Hmong religion were religious choices that were the product of the constant interaction between Hmong people and the gods that richly populate their spiritual landscape.
Cheryl A. Corbett, Lynn Clark Callister, Jamie Peterson Gettys and Jacob R. Hickman (2017). "The Meaning of Giving Birth: Voices of Hmong Women Living in Vietnam." Journal of Perinatal Neonatal Nursing 31(3): 207–215. This qualitative study provides an ethnographic view of the cultural and spiritual perspectives on birthing of Hmong mothers living in the highlands of Vietnam. Situated within a large collaborative anthropology project, a convenience sample of 8 Hmong women, who had recently given birth, were interviewed regarding the perinatal experience.
Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Robert J. Straka, MaiKia Moua, Youssef Roman, Pachia Vue, Kang Xiaaj, May Xia Lo and Mai Lor. (2017). "Engaging Hmong adults in genomic and pharmacogenomic research: Toward reducing health disparities in genomic knowledge using a community-based participatory research approach." Journal of Community Genetics 8:117–125. The authors of this study implemented a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process with the Hmong community in Minnesota, who were refugees from Laos, in order to assess the feasibility of conducting genomic and pharmacogenomic-based
research for genetic variants that are relevant to the Hmong community.
R. Endo. (2017). "The Narrative Experiences of Hmong American Adolescent Males Labeled Educationally 'At Risk'." Education and Urban Society 49(6) 593–615. This research article investigates the narrative experiences of Hmong American adolescent males who were labeled at risk or high risk for academic failure or underperformance by their predominantly White school counselors and teachers. Additional data sources included classroom observations at two racially diverse public high schools and semi-structured interviews with two White American female classroom teachers to ascertain how the “at-risk” label manifested in everyday practices ranging from classroom management/
discipline methods, instructional decisions, interpersonal interactions, referrals, and tracking practices.
Linda P. Juang and Laurie L. Meschke. (2017). "Hmong American Young Adults’ Reflections on Their Immigrant Parents." Journal of Family Issues, 38(9) 1313–1335. To better understand emerging adults’ perceptions of family interactions and value transmission to the next generation, the authors of this study assessed Hmong American emerging adults’ reflections on their parents’ parenting. Participants discussed what parenting practices they would do differently and others they hoped to emulate with their future adolescent children.
Belle P. Khuu, Hee Y. Lee. Anne Q. Zhou. (2017). "Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Hmong American Immigrants: Addressing the Health Disparities." Journal of Community Health. DOI 10.1007/s10900-017-0381-0. This study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining health literacy levels among Hmong Americans and associated factors. Approximately half of the participants had low health literacy and reported that they did not understand health information well. Health literacy levels were found by the researchers to differ significantly based on the number of years participants have lived in the U.S., their social or religious group attendance, health status, and whether they had difficulties with activities of daily living.
Moosung Lee, Beatrice Oi-Yeung Lam and Na’im Madyun. (2017). "Effects of Different-Race Exposure in School and Neighborhood on the Reading Achievement of Hmong Students in the United States." Urban Education 52(10): 1255–1283. Based on analyses of more than 1,000 Hmong adolescents in a large urban school
district, the researchers discuss a positive association between school different-race exposure and Hmong limited English proficient students’ reading achievement. At the same time, the authors also note a negative association of neighborhood different-race exposure with Hmong students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds.
Stacey Lee, Choua Xiong, Linda Marie Pheng and Mai Neng Vang. (2017). "The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: 12(1): 1-21. This article explores the complex and diverse ways that Hmong Americans in a community in Wisconsin are making sense of and responding to the model minority stereotype and the racial
positioning of the Hmong American community. The paper is intended illustrate the persistent power of the model minority stereotype to frame Asian American experiences, identities and actions.This article may be read online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss2/1
Christian C. Lentz. (2017). "Cultivating Subjects: Opium and rule in post-colonial Vietnam." Modern Asian Studies: 51(4): 879–918. Using upland cultivators to investigate post-colonial statemaking, this article focuses on opium’s relationship with socialist rule in Vietnam. Drawing on French and Vietnamese archival records, it traces the operation of successive opium regimes. Based on evidence of opium tax and purchase operations conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) from 1951 to 1960, it argues that regulating the commodity sensitized cultivators to their long, fraught relations with state power. Far from passive, cultivating subjects engaged in revolutionary ideals, engaged smuggling networks, negotiated resource rights, and mounted an oppositional social movement. Peaking in 1957, the movement and subsequent crackdown illustrate for the author tensions embedded in post-colonial relations of exchange and rule.
Lori Kido Lopez. (2017). "Always on the Phone: The Invisible Role of Hmong Women in Diasporic Media Industries." Communication, Culture & Critique 10:185–202. This study assesses the emerging media institution of Hmong teleconference radio, a global form of mobile communication that is often operated and accessed by Hmong American women. Interviews with Hmong Americans about this participatory form of mass media reveal the ways in which it is opening new pathways for diasporic communication, but also the ways that it is criticized and delegitimized. The author argues that Hmong teleconference radio offers a rich case study for analyzing mobile phone cultures in a digital era, ultimately showing how women’s labor and entrepreneurship within the mobile media realm can be minimized or altogether obscured through gendered hierarchies of value.
Maichou Lor. (2017). "Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0410-9. This systematic literature review assesses health disparities related to health promotion and disease prevention among Hmong adults from 1975 to 2015. Seventy-one descriptive (qualitative, mixed methods, and quantitative) studies were reviewed. Most articles focused on two areas: (1) health status (mainly breast and cervical cancers) and (2) health-related
behaviors.
Pao Lor and Ray Hutchinson. (2017). "Educational Careers of Hmong American Students." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: 12(1): 1-27. In this descriptive and exploratory study, the authors analyze the demographic characteristics and educational achievement of Hmong students who were admitted to and attended a four-year state university in the Midwest from 2002–2010. The researchers summarize the students' demographic data and academic achievement, and compare their academic achievement to that of their college peers. They also assess relationships between their high school academic achievement and their college academic progress as well as post-secondary outcomes. This article may be accessed online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss1/3
Fay Mitchell-Brown, et al. (2017). "A Study of Hmong Immigrants’ Experience With Diabetes Education: A Community-Engaged Qualitative Study." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 28(6) 540–549. The authors of this
research study sought to identify barriers and facilitators related to the diabetes education experience of Hmong Americans with type 2 diabetes, living in central California. The researchers of this qualitative study utilized a hybrid design to identify barriers and facilitators to diabetes education.
Bic Ngo (2017) The Costs of “Living the Dream” for Hmong Immigrants: The Impact of Subtractive Schooling on Family and Community, Educational Studies, 53(5): 450-467. DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2016.1258361. In this study, the author interviewed Hmong community leaders to explore their perspectives on the role of subtractive schooling in the struggles of Hmong students, parents, and the ethnic community as a whole. The author discusses the understanding these leaders have of the exclusionary practices of schooling that privilege dominant White culture and contribute to children’s Hmong language loss, ignorance about the Hmong refugee experience and sacrifices
of parents and elders, and disengagement from family cultural obligations.
Linda Park, R. J. Schwei, P. Xiong and E. A. Jacobs. (2017). "Addressing Cultural Determinants of Health for Latino and Hmong Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Practical Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0396-3. The authors of this study assessed how addressing culture may improve patient-provider relationships and reduce health disparities for racial and ethnic individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).The authors analyzed qualitative data collected to explore health disparities in preventive cancer screenings for Hmong and Spanish-speaking LEP patients in a large Midwest healthcare system.
Jenjee T. Sengkhammee et al. (2017). "Txoj Kev Ntshiab: Hmong American undergraduates’ perceptions of intellectual phoniness and psychosociocultural persistence decisions." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: Vol. 12(1): 1-24. The authors of this study examined the educational experiences of 103 Hmong American undergraduates, gender and class standing differences emerged using a psychosociocultural approach. Females reported increased perceptions of family and friend support and
greater cultural congruity in the university environment than males. Lower-division students indicated greater perceptions of social support from family, greater cultural congruity, and lower self-esteem than upper-division students.This article may be viewed online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss1/1/
Cecelia M. Tsu. (2017). “If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”: Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota." Journal of American Ethnic History 36(3): 38-73. This research article examines the brief and tumultuous history of two high-profile Minnesota-based farm cooperatives as a window into the evolution of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement policy during the 1980s and its intersection with the rise of modern conservatism in the United States.
Books/Theses/Reports
Mai Soua Lee-Cha. (2017). Cultural Capital, Social Identity and Self Efficacy: Impact on the Academic Achievement of Professional Hmong Women. PhD Dissertation. California State University, Fresno. The author of this graduate study investigated changes that Hmong women, who are pioneering diverse careers, are experiencing. The objective of this narrative research study was to investigate 10 professional Hmong women’s journeys toward academic achievement.
Mai Ger Lor. (2017). Hmong Community Perceptions on End of Life Care. MSW Project. California State University, Sacramento. The purpose of this graduate project was to assess the level of awareness the Hmong community has about end of life services in attempt to understand the best approach to address the barriers of this topic. The participants’ perception of learning and speaking about end of life services was evaluated in attempt to understand the factors hindering individuals from utilizing care services for themselves and their family members.
Mai Chao Thao. (2017). A Narrative Study on the Experiences of Hmong Female College Students. PhD Dissertation. Drexel University. This graduate study explores through narrative inquiry the educational experiences of Hmong American women in college or university focusing on understanding how their gender and cultural roles influence their educational experiences.
Kao Lee Vang and Pa Foua Vang. (2017). Factors Affecting Sacramento State Hmong Students' 4-Year Graduate Rate. MSW Project. California State University, Sacramento. This research project investigates the issue of delayed graduation among Hmong students at California State University, Sacramento by specifically exploring factors that hinder Hmong students from successfully graduating within four years of matriculating into the university as first-time freshmen.
Sao Vang. (2017). A Phenomenological Study of the Perceptions of Hmong Licensed Family Child Care Providers on Process Features of Child Care Quality. PhD Dissertation. Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
This graduate study utilized a phenomenological research design to investigate how process features
of child care quality are experienced in Hmong licensed family child care settings.
Yuepeng Vang. (2017). The Experiences of Hmong Men Who Marry as Adolescents. MSW Thesis. California State University, Stanislaus. This qualitative graduate study explores the issues that arise for adolescent Hmong
males who were culturally married under the legal age of eighteen, as well as the resulting pressures they experienced due to competing expectations between traditional Hmong culture and the American context in which they live.
Chong Yang. (2017). In the Shadows of Over representation: HMong Men and Engineering Education. MA Thesis. California State University, Sacramento. The author of this graduate study was interested in the experiences of Hmong males in engineering education programs given the under representation of racial minorities and the high representation of Asians more generally in STEM programs in higher education. The author investigated 8 cohorts of HMong men and their participation and persistence in engineering education at a minority serving institution (California State University, Sacramento).
Kou Yang. (2017). The Making of Hmong America: Forty Years after the Secret War. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. This monograph presents an overview of the Hmong American experience. The author begins by documenting Hmong involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. He then uses the Hmong communities in Montana, Fresno and Denver as case studies. The progress of Hmong Americans over the past four decades is highlighted with a list of many achievements in education, high-tech, academia, political participation, the military and other fields. Learn more about this work here: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498546461/The-Making-of-Hmong-America-Forty-Years-after-the-Secret-War#
Mai See Yang. (2017). The Impacts of Life Events on Depression in Later Life Among Older Hmong Immigrants. PhD Dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Boston. The overall findings for this graduate study suggested that older Hmong adults living in the US have experienced stressors and depression throughout the lifespan (i.e., pre-migration,transition, and post-migration). The desire for social connection and support to help ease
the experiences of war, diaspora, and post-migration adjustment was a common theme with implications for mental health.
Academic Journal Articles/Other
Aime Agather, et al. (2017). "Working with the Hmong Population in a Genetics Setting: Genetic Counselor Perspectives." Journal of Genetic Counseling (26):1388–1400. The Hmong language lacks words for many familiar Western medical genetic concepts which may impact genetic counseling sessions with individuals of Hmong ancestry who have limited English proficiency. To study this interaction, a qualitative, semi-structured interview was designed by the authors of this study to address genetic counselors’ experiences of genetic counseling sessions working with individuals with Hmong ancestry.
Chrisa Arcan, Kathleen A Culhane-Pera, Shannon Pergament, Maira Rosas-Lee and Mai Bao Xiong (2017). "Somali, Latino and Hmong parents’ perceptions and approaches about raising healthy-weight children: a community-based participatory research study." Public Health Nutrition. doi:10.1017/S1368980017001719
The authors of this research study investigated perceptions of childhood body weight, approaches to raising healthy children and desires for supportive programs for Somali, Latino and Hmong parents in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA.
Gavin Bart (2017). "Ethnic differences in psychosocial factors in methadone maintenance: Hmong versus non-Hmong." Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, DOI: 10.1080/15332640.2017.1371656. The author of this study assessed psychosocial factors in 76 Hmong and 130 non-Hmong on methadone maintenance for at
least two months in a single urban methadone maintenance clinic. Assessments utilized included the Addiction Severity Index 5th Edition, the Symptom Checklist-90, and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders.
Melissa May Borja (2017). "Speaking of Spirits: Oral History, Religious Change, and the Seen and Unseen Worlds of Hmong Americans." Oral History Review, 44(1) 1-18. Through the perspective provided by oral history, this essay focuses on the religious changes experienced by Hmong Americans. Hmong decisions to adopt Christianity or return to indigenous Hmong religion were religious choices that were the product of the constant interaction between Hmong people and the gods that richly populate their spiritual landscape.
Cheryl A. Corbett, Lynn Clark Callister, Jamie Peterson Gettys and Jacob R. Hickman (2017). "The Meaning of Giving Birth: Voices of Hmong Women Living in Vietnam." Journal of Perinatal Neonatal Nursing 31(3): 207–215. This qualitative study provides an ethnographic view of the cultural and spiritual perspectives on birthing of Hmong mothers living in the highlands of Vietnam. Situated within a large collaborative anthropology project, a convenience sample of 8 Hmong women, who had recently given birth, were interviewed regarding the perinatal experience.
Kathleen A. Culhane-Pera, Robert J. Straka, MaiKia Moua, Youssef Roman, Pachia Vue, Kang Xiaaj, May Xia Lo and Mai Lor. (2017). "Engaging Hmong adults in genomic and pharmacogenomic research: Toward reducing health disparities in genomic knowledge using a community-based participatory research approach." Journal of Community Genetics 8:117–125. The authors of this study implemented a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process with the Hmong community in Minnesota, who were refugees from Laos, in order to assess the feasibility of conducting genomic and pharmacogenomic-based
research for genetic variants that are relevant to the Hmong community.
R. Endo. (2017). "The Narrative Experiences of Hmong American Adolescent Males Labeled Educationally 'At Risk'." Education and Urban Society 49(6) 593–615. This research article investigates the narrative experiences of Hmong American adolescent males who were labeled at risk or high risk for academic failure or underperformance by their predominantly White school counselors and teachers. Additional data sources included classroom observations at two racially diverse public high schools and semi-structured interviews with two White American female classroom teachers to ascertain how the “at-risk” label manifested in everyday practices ranging from classroom management/
discipline methods, instructional decisions, interpersonal interactions, referrals, and tracking practices.
Linda P. Juang and Laurie L. Meschke. (2017). "Hmong American Young Adults’ Reflections on Their Immigrant Parents." Journal of Family Issues, 38(9) 1313–1335. To better understand emerging adults’ perceptions of family interactions and value transmission to the next generation, the authors of this study assessed Hmong American emerging adults’ reflections on their parents’ parenting. Participants discussed what parenting practices they would do differently and others they hoped to emulate with their future adolescent children.
Belle P. Khuu, Hee Y. Lee. Anne Q. Zhou. (2017). "Health Literacy and Associated Factors Among Hmong American Immigrants: Addressing the Health Disparities." Journal of Community Health. DOI 10.1007/s10900-017-0381-0. This study seeks to fill a gap in the literature by examining health literacy levels among Hmong Americans and associated factors. Approximately half of the participants had low health literacy and reported that they did not understand health information well. Health literacy levels were found by the researchers to differ significantly based on the number of years participants have lived in the U.S., their social or religious group attendance, health status, and whether they had difficulties with activities of daily living.
Moosung Lee, Beatrice Oi-Yeung Lam and Na’im Madyun. (2017). "Effects of Different-Race Exposure in School and Neighborhood on the Reading Achievement of Hmong Students in the United States." Urban Education 52(10): 1255–1283. Based on analyses of more than 1,000 Hmong adolescents in a large urban school
district, the researchers discuss a positive association between school different-race exposure and Hmong limited English proficient students’ reading achievement. At the same time, the authors also note a negative association of neighborhood different-race exposure with Hmong students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds.
Stacey Lee, Choua Xiong, Linda Marie Pheng and Mai Neng Vang. (2017). "The Model Minority Maze: Hmong Americans Working Within and Around Racial Discourses." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: 12(1): 1-21. This article explores the complex and diverse ways that Hmong Americans in a community in Wisconsin are making sense of and responding to the model minority stereotype and the racial
positioning of the Hmong American community. The paper is intended illustrate the persistent power of the model minority stereotype to frame Asian American experiences, identities and actions.This article may be read online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss2/1
Christian C. Lentz. (2017). "Cultivating Subjects: Opium and rule in post-colonial Vietnam." Modern Asian Studies: 51(4): 879–918. Using upland cultivators to investigate post-colonial statemaking, this article focuses on opium’s relationship with socialist rule in Vietnam. Drawing on French and Vietnamese archival records, it traces the operation of successive opium regimes. Based on evidence of opium tax and purchase operations conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) from 1951 to 1960, it argues that regulating the commodity sensitized cultivators to their long, fraught relations with state power. Far from passive, cultivating subjects engaged in revolutionary ideals, engaged smuggling networks, negotiated resource rights, and mounted an oppositional social movement. Peaking in 1957, the movement and subsequent crackdown illustrate for the author tensions embedded in post-colonial relations of exchange and rule.
Lori Kido Lopez. (2017). "Always on the Phone: The Invisible Role of Hmong Women in Diasporic Media Industries." Communication, Culture & Critique 10:185–202. This study assesses the emerging media institution of Hmong teleconference radio, a global form of mobile communication that is often operated and accessed by Hmong American women. Interviews with Hmong Americans about this participatory form of mass media reveal the ways in which it is opening new pathways for diasporic communication, but also the ways that it is criticized and delegitimized. The author argues that Hmong teleconference radio offers a rich case study for analyzing mobile phone cultures in a digital era, ultimately showing how women’s labor and entrepreneurship within the mobile media realm can be minimized or altogether obscured through gendered hierarchies of value.
Maichou Lor. (2017). "Systematic Review: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Among Hmong Adults in the USA." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0410-9. This systematic literature review assesses health disparities related to health promotion and disease prevention among Hmong adults from 1975 to 2015. Seventy-one descriptive (qualitative, mixed methods, and quantitative) studies were reviewed. Most articles focused on two areas: (1) health status (mainly breast and cervical cancers) and (2) health-related
behaviors.
Pao Lor and Ray Hutchinson. (2017). "Educational Careers of Hmong American Students." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: 12(1): 1-27. In this descriptive and exploratory study, the authors analyze the demographic characteristics and educational achievement of Hmong students who were admitted to and attended a four-year state university in the Midwest from 2002–2010. The researchers summarize the students' demographic data and academic achievement, and compare their academic achievement to that of their college peers. They also assess relationships between their high school academic achievement and their college academic progress as well as post-secondary outcomes. This article may be accessed online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss1/3
Fay Mitchell-Brown, et al. (2017). "A Study of Hmong Immigrants’ Experience With Diabetes Education: A Community-Engaged Qualitative Study." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 28(6) 540–549. The authors of this
research study sought to identify barriers and facilitators related to the diabetes education experience of Hmong Americans with type 2 diabetes, living in central California. The researchers of this qualitative study utilized a hybrid design to identify barriers and facilitators to diabetes education.
Bic Ngo (2017) The Costs of “Living the Dream” for Hmong Immigrants: The Impact of Subtractive Schooling on Family and Community, Educational Studies, 53(5): 450-467. DOI: 10.1080/00131946.2016.1258361. In this study, the author interviewed Hmong community leaders to explore their perspectives on the role of subtractive schooling in the struggles of Hmong students, parents, and the ethnic community as a whole. The author discusses the understanding these leaders have of the exclusionary practices of schooling that privilege dominant White culture and contribute to children’s Hmong language loss, ignorance about the Hmong refugee experience and sacrifices
of parents and elders, and disengagement from family cultural obligations.
Linda Park, R. J. Schwei, P. Xiong and E. A. Jacobs. (2017). "Addressing Cultural Determinants of Health for Latino and Hmong Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Practical Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities." Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0396-3. The authors of this study assessed how addressing culture may improve patient-provider relationships and reduce health disparities for racial and ethnic individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP).The authors analyzed qualitative data collected to explore health disparities in preventive cancer screenings for Hmong and Spanish-speaking LEP patients in a large Midwest healthcare system.
Jenjee T. Sengkhammee et al. (2017). "Txoj Kev Ntshiab: Hmong American undergraduates’ perceptions of intellectual phoniness and psychosociocultural persistence decisions." Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement: Vol. 12(1): 1-24. The authors of this study examined the educational experiences of 103 Hmong American undergraduates, gender and class standing differences emerged using a psychosociocultural approach. Females reported increased perceptions of family and friend support and
greater cultural congruity in the university environment than males. Lower-division students indicated greater perceptions of social support from family, greater cultural congruity, and lower self-esteem than upper-division students.This article may be viewed online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/jsaaea/vol12/iss1/1/
Cecelia M. Tsu. (2017). “If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat”: Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota." Journal of American Ethnic History 36(3): 38-73. This research article examines the brief and tumultuous history of two high-profile Minnesota-based farm cooperatives as a window into the evolution of Southeast Asian refugee resettlement policy during the 1980s and its intersection with the rise of modern conservatism in the United States.
HMONG STUDIES JOURNAL PUBLISHES VOLUME 18
At the end of December 2017, the Saint Paul-based Hmong Studies Journal published volume 18.
Articles in Volume 18 include the following:
"Does Acculturation and Stigma Affect Hmong Women’s Attitudes Toward and Willingness to Seek Counseling Services?" by Maiteng Lor, Emil Rodolfa and Beth Limberg
"Measuring Formal Intelligence in the Informal Learner: A Case Study of Hmong American Students and Cognitive Assessment" by Carl Romstad and Zha Blong Xiong
From Kwvtxhiaj and Pajntaub to Theater and Literature: The Role of Generation, Gender, and Human Rights
in the Expansion of Hmong American Art by Nengher Vang and Jeremy Hein
"Commentary: Ignorance as Bias: Radiolab, Yellow Rain, and 'The Fact of the Matter'" by Paul Hillmer and Mary Ann Yang
View the Hmong Studies Journal Volume 18 Press Release here: http://hmongstudies.org/HSJPressRelease18.pdf
View Volume 18 here: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-18-2017.html
Articles in Volume 18 include the following:
"Does Acculturation and Stigma Affect Hmong Women’s Attitudes Toward and Willingness to Seek Counseling Services?" by Maiteng Lor, Emil Rodolfa and Beth Limberg
"Measuring Formal Intelligence in the Informal Learner: A Case Study of Hmong American Students and Cognitive Assessment" by Carl Romstad and Zha Blong Xiong
From Kwvtxhiaj and Pajntaub to Theater and Literature: The Role of Generation, Gender, and Human Rights
in the Expansion of Hmong American Art by Nengher Vang and Jeremy Hein
"Commentary: Ignorance as Bias: Radiolab, Yellow Rain, and 'The Fact of the Matter'" by Paul Hillmer and Mary Ann Yang
View the Hmong Studies Journal Volume 18 Press Release here: http://hmongstudies.org/HSJPressRelease18.pdf
View Volume 18 here: http://www.hmongstudiesjournal.org/hsj-volume-18-2017.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
