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Scope/Content: An oral history with Mr. Binh Truong, a graduate of a community college in Washington State where he majored in aerospace engineering and graduated at top honors with a 4.3 GPA. The interview focuses on his early life in Vietnam as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force, his time in Camp Pendleton where he was later sponsored by a family in Washington, his experience balancing two jobs in college and graduating with the top honors, and his many careers that followed. I wanted to focus on his experience as a pilot in the Vietnamese Air Force but found that he had many other interesting stories that were equally as important to his life experience. Scope/Content: “Vietnamese American Experience” examines Vietnamese American identities and communities through a sustained critique of United States imperialism and analysis of the wars in Southeast Asia, which spurned the mass migration of over 1 million Vietnamese to America since the 1970s. Drawing from interdisciplinary scholarly research, literary works and visual media, this course equips students with a critical and transnational framework for engaging Vietnamese American experiences. We explore how Vietnamese Americans have been made subject to US racial formation before and after their arrival in the US. Most importantly, we seek to understand how they craft their own lives and meanings, their memories of the homeland, as well as their triumphs and struggles to build community. Toward this end, a major component of this course is an oral history project each student will complete with a Vietnamese American elder. Students are trained in oral history methodology and required to conduct and process (transcribe, translate, and index) one oral history interview to donate to the Vietnamese American Oral History Project, which is archived in the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive. Scope/Content: Binh Truong and his fellow troop members, Photographer News reporter, 1972
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1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 10 jpg image files
Camp Pendleton, California | Vietnam War | Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) | Sponsors | Education | Employment | Engineer | Business owner | Westminster, California | Protests | Communist | Anticommunist | Escape | Red Cross
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