Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Envisioning America is an insightful study of the emergence of immigrant Chinese American activists as a new, unheralded political force in the Los Angeles suburbs. Cultural anthropologist Tritia Toyota's compelling story deals with up-to-the-moment issues of race, civil rights, Asian American politics, immigration, language identity, home country political heritage, transnational institutions, new social structures, and political succession. A must read."--Bill Lann Lee, Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C.