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Title: Oral History of Tony Ly
Creator: Ly, Tony
Contributor: Franco, Courtney
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-18
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: Oral history with Tony Ly, who was born in Fountain Valley, California, in 1988. After the fall of Saigon, his family had fled to the Philippines and then migrated to California where he was born a year later. He was born and raised in the Garden Grove area where he also went to high school and later he went to the University of California Irvine, majoring in business economics. After graduation, he stopped working to take care of his brother who had fallen ill. His parents could not assist because they could not speak English well enough to communicate with the doctors. After seeing how well his brother had felt when he went to the chiropractors, he decided to attend the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic to become a chiropractor. Tony still lives in Garden Grove area with his parents in order to take care of his older brother and also works as a chiropractor in Pasadena, California.
Scope/Content: At what point in time can one pinpoint the beginning of Vietnamese America? Does it begin with the Fall of Saigon? Does it begin with the creation of Little Saigons throughout America? In looking to define Vietnamese American experiences, do we limit what it has been and what it could be? Whatever the entry point, experiences of Vietnamese Americans are inextricably tangled with the political, economic, and social structures of racial, class, and gender hierarchy in the United States and notions of authenticity and nationalism. Thus, to begin learning what the Vietnamese American experience entails, is to also begin unlearning. This course seeks to understand, unravel and complicate what Vietnamese America is through a critical refugee and critical race lens. By analyzing various issues, we are able to see how Vietnamese Americans are affected by larger societal forces such as capitalism and imperialism. This course aims to: 1. To introduce the student to the history, culture, and contemporary experiences of Vietnamese Americans, highlighting how power and privilege entangles them all together. 2. Expand current discourse around social issues that affect Vietnamese Americans by using both scientific literature, creative works and scholarly articles. 3. Expose students to the multitude of historical, contemporary and local Vietnamese American narratives, taking advantage of the proximity to one of the largest Little Saigons.
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 2 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map
Extent: 01:16:56
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8sc30
VAOHP0356
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14618
Language: English
en
Subject: Buddhist | College | University | Education | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Health | Medical professional | Mental health | University of California, Irvine
Time Period: 1980-1989
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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