Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Making of Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity among Asian American Youth -- Coming of Age at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century: A Demographic Profile of Asian American Youth -- Intermarriage and Multiracial Identification: The Asian American Experience and Implications for Changing Color Lines -- Rizal Day Queen Contests, Filipino Nationalism, and Femininity -- Nisei Daughters' Courtship and Romance in Los Angeles before World War II -- Hell's a Poppin': Asian American Women's Youth Consumer Culture -- Shifting Ethnic Identity and Consciousness: U.S.-Born Chinese American Youth in the 1930s and 1950s -- Instant Karma: The Commercialization of Asian Indian Culture -- Transnational Cultural Practices of Chinese Immigrant Youth and Parachute Kids -- Reinventing the Wheel: Import Car Racing in Southern California -- No Lattes Here": Asian American Youth and the Cyber Cafe Obsession -- Filipinotown and the DJ Scene: Cultural Expression and Identity Affirmation of Filipino American Youth in Los Angeles -- A Shortcut to the American Dream? Vietnamese Youth Gangs in Little Saigon -- Lost in the Fray: Cambodian American Youth in Providence, Rhode Island -- Made in the U.S.A.: Second-Generation Korean American Campus Evangelicals -- Performing Race, Negotiating Identity: Asian American Professional Actors in Hollywood -- Searching for Home: Voices of Gay Asian American Youth in West Hollywood -- Marriage Dilemmas: Partner Choices and Constraints for Korean Americans in New York City -- A Commentary on Young Asian American Activists from the 1960s to the Present -- Conclusion: Reflections, Thoughts, and Directions for Future Reseach -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Asian American Youth covers topics such as Asian immigration, acculturation, assimilation, intermarriage, socialization, sexuality, and ethnic identification. The distinguished contributors show how Asian American youth have created an identity and space for themselves historically and in contemporary multicultural America.

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