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Homeland Beauty: Transnational Longing and Hmong American Vidoe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2007

Louisa Schein
Louisa Schein
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Schein@rci.rutgers.eduAssociate Professor of Anthropology andWomen's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 2 , May 2004 , pp. 433 - 463
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