%0 Journal Article
%T "Khmer Pride": Being and Becoming Khmer-American in an Urban Migrant Education Program
%A Theresa Ann McGinnis
%J Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement
%D 2007
%I Purdue University Press
%X This article focuses on the ways an urban migrant education program becomes a space where middle school Khmer students can explore who they are as Khmer youth living in an urban American context. I discuss how the youth are able to take a transformative, interactional stance to the literacy and sign-making practices within the program. I argue that the Khmer youth¡¯s identities are reflected within these literacy and expressive practices. Further, I suggest the experiences of these Khmer middle school children of agricultural workers provide rich examples of how immigrant youth draw on a variety of cultural resources (from urban American culture and from their own Khmer cultural inheritance) in constructing layered identities.
%K Urban
%K Literacy
%K Cultural Productions
%K Identity
%U http://jsaaea.coehd.utsa.edu/index.php/JSAAEA/article/view/8/12