Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging - Paperback

by Tritia Toyota (Author)

Envisioning America is a revealing ethnographic portrait of how naturalized Chinese in Southern California have pursued the democratic ideals of participation through political empowerment and community recognition despite impediments to their full inclusion as American citizens.

Author Biography

Tritia Toyota is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at UCLA. She is also an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 25 years in Southern California television news. She wrote and produced the first Emmy award-winning, hour-long documentary Asian America.