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Today's Cambodian Americans are these refugees and their children and grandchildren. While many Cambodian Americans have finished school, obtained Degrees and integrated into American society, large, culturally isolated enclaves still exist in many cities across the United States , including Los Angeles , Houston , New York City , Philadelphia , Oakland , Seattle , and Boston . Half of the Cambodian American population in the United States is in California, with Long Beach having the highest density of Cambodian Americans in the U.S. There is also a large population in Massachusetts , concentrated in and around Lowell , and in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and Seattle , Washington . Cambodian Americans are quickly growing in numbers in the entire Northeast , but more so in the states of Massachusetts , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and New York . Michigan and Illinois have also seen growth in the Cambodian American population. Some prominent or famous Cambodian Americans include Dith Pran , Haing S. Ngor , Sam-Ang Sam , Loung Ung , Arn Chorn-Pond , Prach Ly , U Sam Oeur , and the adopted Maddox Chivon Jolie-Pitt. There are two Museum s in the U.S. devoted to the story of Cambodians in America, the Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Seattle and the Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago , both founded in 2004. BOOKS ABOUT Aside from personal memoirs of coming to America, such as those by community. It portrays some understanding of both traditional Khmer culture and contemporary American society, but it is not a historical study of Khmer Americans. A more recent book is, ''Buddha Is Hiding'' written by Aiwha Ong , an ethnographic study that tells the story of Khmer Americans and their experiences of American citizenship. The study was largely investigating Khmer refugee in Oakland and San Francisco Bay Area. It portrayed what most Cambodian refugees experience with American institutions such as health, welfare, law, police force, church, and school. The book reveals through extensive ethnographic dialogues showing how Khmer refugees interpret and negotiate with American culture, often at the expense of their own cultural Theravada Buddhist cultural upbringing. This book revealed the contradictions in how Khmer American encounters with American citizenship as they negotiate with service providers, bureaucrats, and employers on how to be autonomous while the system and American cultural citizenship limits them within terms that labeled them as refugees in the context of ethnicity, race, and class. ''Survivors: Cambodian Refugees in the United States'' written by Sucheng Chan, is a multidisciplinary study of Khmer American, drawing on interviews with community leaders, government officials, and other staff members in community agencies as well as common Khmer American to capture the perspectives of Cambodian Americans from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. SEE ALSO
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