The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Readings
The Hmong: Non-Fiction
Breakstone, Carole Diane. "I Come Back, Will Remember: Tales of a Hmong Community Leader in Morganton, North Carolina." Master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990.
Available in Davis Library: Thesis Folklore 1990 B828
Chan, Sucheng, ed. Hmong Means Free: Life in Laos and America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
Introduction Chapter
Available in Davis Library: DS558.8 .H56 1994
Cooper, Robert, ed. Hmong: Vanishing Cultures of the World -- A Guide to Traditional Lifestyles. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1997.
Cooper, Robert G. Resource Scarcity and the Hmong Response: Patterns of Settlement and Economy in Transition. Singapore: Singapore University Press, National University of Singapore, 1984.
Available in Davis Library: DS570 .M5 C65 1984
Goldfarb, Mace. Fighters, Refugees, Immigrants: A Story of the Hmong. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1982.
Available in Davis Library: HV640.4 .T5 G63 1982
Hamilton-Merritt, Jane. Tragic Mountains: The Hmong, the Americans, and the Secret Wars for Laos, 1942-1992.
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Available in Davis Library: DS555.45 .M5 H36 1992
Hendricks, Glenn L., Bruce T. Downing, and Amos S. Deinard, eds. The Hmong in Transition. Staten Island, NY: Center for Migration Studies of New York, 1986.
Available in Davis Library: DS509.5 .H66 H56 1986
Hmong Art: Tradition and Change. Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 1986.
Available in Davis Library: NK608 .H55 H56 1986
The Hmong in Fresno: A Study of Welfare Participation and Self-sufficiency. Los Angeles: Pacific Asia Press, 2001.
Hmong Studies Journal. Saint Paul, MI.
Ikeda, Joanne P. Hmong American Food Practices, Customs, and Holidays. Chicago: American Dietetic Assoc., 1999.
Available in Health Sciences Library: WK 819 I26h 1999
Lo, Fungchatau T. The Promised Land: The Socioeconomic Reality of the Hmong People in Urban America (1976-2000. Bristol, IN: Wyndham Hall Press, 2001.
Miyares, Ines M. The Hmong Refugee Experience in the United States: Crossing the River. New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
Available in Davis Library: E184 .H55 M59 1998
Moore, David L. Dark Sky, Dark Land: Stories of the Hmong Boy Scouts of Troop 100. Eden Prairie, MN: Tessera Pub., 1989.
Available in Davis Library: F614 .M59 H556 1989
O'Connor, Bonnie Blair. Healing Traditions: Alternative Medicine and the Health Professions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
Available in Davis Library: R733 .O36 1995
Park, Yoosun. The Hmong Community in the United States. Seattle, WA: Cross Cultural Health Care Program, 2000.
Available in Health Sciences Library: WA 300 P236h 2000
Pfaff, Tim. Hmong in America, Journey from a Secret War. Eau Claire, WI: Chippewa Valley Museum Press, 1995.
Available in Davis Library: E184 .H55 P534 199
Schein, Louisa. Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.
Available in Davis Library: DS731 .M5 S3 2000
Takaki, Ronald. From Exiles to Immigrants: The Refugees from Southeast Asia. New York: Chelsea House, 1995.
Tapp, Nicholas. The Hmong of Thailand: Opium People of the Golden Triangle. London: Anti-Slavery Society, 1986.
Available in Davis Library: DS570 .M5 T36 1986
Thao, Paoze. Mong Education at the Crossroads. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.
Available in Davis Library: LC3501 .H56 T53 1999
Trueba, Enrique T., Lila Jacobs, and Elizabeth Kirton. Cultural Conflict and Adaptation: The Case of Hmong Children in American Society. New York: Falmer Press, 1990.
Available in Davis Library: F855.2 .H55 T78 1990
Trueba, Enrique T., Yali Zou. Power in Education: The Case of Miao University Students and its Significance for American Culture. London: Falmer Press, 1994.
Available in Davis Library: LC3501 .H56 T78 1994
Xiong, Ghia, and Lillian Faderman. I Begin My Life All Over: The Hmong and the American Immigrant Experience. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Available in Davis Library: E184 .H55 F33 1998
Hmongnet's "Hmong Publications" webpage.
Vietnam War Bibliography: The Montagnards. Edwin E. Moïse, Clemson University.
The Hmong: Fiction
Panasuwan, Piriya. Chao Fa. Nantucket, MA: Benya Publishing House, 2000.
The Hmong: Children's and Young Adults' Books
Cha, Dia, Chiie Thao Cha, Nhia Thao Cha, and Chue Cha. Dia's Story Cloth. New York: Lee & Low Books, 1998.
Coburn, Jewell Reinhart, Anne Sibley O'Brien, and Tzexa C. Lee. Jouanah: A Hmong Cinderella. Fremont, CA: Shen's Books, 1996.
Murphy, Nora, and Peter Ford. A Hmong Family. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publishing Group, 1997.
Shea, Pegi Deitz, Anita Riggio, and You Yang. The Whispering Cloth: A Refugee's Story. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1996.
Xiong, Blia, Nancy Hom, and Cathy Spagnoli. Nine-In-One, Grr! Grr!: A Folktale from the Hmong People of Laos. San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1989.
Available in SILS Library Juvenile Collection: J398.2 Blia
Social Medicine
The Social Medicine Reader. Henderson, Gail E., Nancy M. P. King, Ronald P. Strauss, Sue E. Estroff, and Larry R. Churchill, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Available in Davis Library: RA418 .S6424 1997 and Health Sciences Library: WA 31 S6773 1997
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