The Viability of “Going it Alone”: Vietnamese in America and the Coalition Experience of a Transnational Community (original) (raw)

Race / Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, 2008

Abstract

One of the classic dilemmas facing marginalized populations is whether or not to engage in a coalition to gain access to political power. After three decades as one of America's newest and poorest immigrant groups, Vietnamese in the United States have begun to grapple with this idea, in recent years attempting coalitions with whites, other Asian ethnic groups, and Latinos as their population has grown. For the most part, such efforts have been either ad hoc or ineffectual; the success they have found has been largely through a" go it alone"( ...

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