Hmong in Minnesota

The short, readable history of how Minnesota came to hold one of the largest Hmong communities in the world. Chia Youyee Vang traces the arrival after the fall of Laos in 1975, the churches and agencies that sponsored the first families, the move into St. Paul and Minneapolis, and the building of institutions, businesses, and political representation across the decades since. It is written for a general reader rather than an academic one, and at its length it works as an orientation for anyone who wants the shape of the story before the details. For a catalog whose readers are disproportionately Minnesotan, it is close to required reading, and it is one of the few books that treats the community as a subject in its own right rather than as an appendix to the war. For general readers, newcomers to the Twin Cities, and school and public libraries.