Not Just Victims

Sucheng Chan is professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author or editor of many books, including Asian Americans: An Interpretive History, Claiming America: Constructing Chinese American Identities during the Exclusion Era, and Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States.

• Long Beach California - the capital of Cambodian America; on Buddhism and psychotherapy; law enforcement issues; how Massachusetts became a refugee-friendly state; Lowell Massachusetts - the "Long Beach of the east coast"; getting established in Fall River Massachusetts; Cambodians in Philadelphia; the Cambodian network council; Cambodians in Portland Oregon; Cambodians in Tacoma Washington; a holistic approach to mental health; The Khmer Krom.

"Not Just Victims allows for a new, 'whole' perspective about the Cambodian community to unfold."--International Examiner "A nuanced and moving portrait of a people actively struggling to overcome one of the twentieth century's most horrific wars."--Asian Affairs "Not Just Victims is inspirational in the way it affirms the resilience of Cambodian culture. [Contains] a wealth of information for the resourceful ehtnographer who seeks to understand Khmer culture in transformation in the United States."--Journal of American Ethnic History “Not Just Victims is of very high quality as a piece of scholarship. The review of the literature on Cambodia and Cambodian refugees is extraordinary. The book contains easily the single best synthesis of Cambodian history, migration, and resettlement I have ever read.”--Jeremy Hein, author of From Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia: A Refugee Experience in the United States