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Title: Oral History of Chau Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Chau
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2013-02-12
Contributing Institution: UC Irvine, Libraries, Southeast Asian Archive
Collection: Viet Stories: Vietnamese American Oral History project
Rights Information: Copyrighted
This material is provided for private study, scholarship, or research. Transmission or reproduction of any material protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Contact the University of California, Irvine Libraries, Special Collections and Archives for more information (spcoll@uci.edu).
Description: Scope/Content: An oral history of Ms. Chau Nguyen, born in 1962 in Chau Doc, Vietnam. She migrated to Saigon in 1963 and grew up in Phu Nhuan District of Saigon. Her father worked for the US government, and her mother was a homemaker. She, along with her parents, both paternal grandparents, paternal aunt, and three siblings, left Vietnam on April 22, 1975 before the Fall of Saigon. After being processed in Camp Pendleton, they were sponsored by a Catholic church and settled in Anaheim, California, where she lives to this day. She received her B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine in 1988. She went on to receive her doctorate in optometry from the University of Southern California in 1992. In 1994, she was a founding member of the Social Assistance Program for Viet Nam (SAP-VN), a yearly mobile health care project based in Garden Grove, California that provides free health and dental care to many poor villagers in Vietnam. She continues to lead the organization to this day.
Scope/Content: Dr. Thuy Vo Dang is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Director for the Vietnamese American Oral History Project (VAOHP) in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Irvine. She earned her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego in 2008 and was a Fellow at the Institute of American Cultures/Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles from 2009-2010 and a Visiting Scholar from 2010-2011. Her research and teaching specializations include comparative race and ethnic relations, immigration, ethnography, community studies, and oral history. For her doctoral dissertation on cultural politics and memory, she conducted oral history interviews with first generation Vietnamese Americans in San Diego. She has also collaborated on a Pacific Rim Foundation-funded project, interviewing over 70 Vietnamese Americans in the southern California area. Her academic research has been published in Amerasia Journal, the anthology Le Viet Nam Au Feminin, and Journal of Vietnamese Studies. Dr. Vo Dang currently facilitates and co-hosts a weekly Vietnamese-language radio show called Oral history; stories between the generations on VNCR (FM 106.3).
Scope/Content: Chau Nguyen, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2013
Type: sound
Format: 3 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 02:19:01
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8jb23
VAOHP0054_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/11973
Language: Vietnamese
vi
English
en
Subject: Catholic | Children | College or university | Death | Education | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Health | Healthcare | Humanitarian organization | Identity | Medical professional | Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) | Religion | Resettlement | Sponsors or sponsorship | Student | Tan Son Nhut Airport | Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) | Anaheim, California | Camp Pendleton, California | Garden Grove, California | University of California, Irvine | Vietnam, Northern | Vietnam, Southern | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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