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Title
Oral History of Dzung Ngoc Nguyen
Creator
Nguyen, Dzung Ngoc
Contributor
Tran, Catherine
Date Created and/or Issued
2019-02-21
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).
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Scope/Content: Dzung Ngoc Nguy was born in 1957 in Da Nang, Vietnam. She moved to Saigon four years later and tested into Gia Long High School in 1969. In 1975, the Communist invaded South Vietnam, taking over Saigon and imprisoning her father in a reeducation camp. Dzung would enter the Food Chemistry College (Hoa Thuc Pham) and land a job in 1982; this year coincides with her father’s release from reeducation. She would switch over to another job within the Yeebo Group based in Hong Kong. By 1993, she immigrated to the United States with her family. In the U.S., attended Coastline Community College in Orange County, CA, landed a job at TRAVCOA and started a family with her husband, Victor Tran.
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.
Scope/Content: Dzung and Catherine, 2019.
Type
sound
Format
3 mp3 audio files; 3 pdf transcriptions English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 7 jpg image files
Extent
01:32:00
Identifier
ark:/81235/d89c3n
VAOHP0377
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14636
Language
English
en
Subject
Acculturation | Diaspora | Identity | Home | Family | Immigrant | Refugee | Migrant | Migration | Patrilocality | Patrilocality | Family cohesion
Time Period
1950-1959
Relation
Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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