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Title: Oral History of Tam Thanh Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Tam Thanh
Contributor: Iranmanesh, Sadegh
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-02-19
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 with Dr. Tam Thanh Nguyen, who obtained an M.D. and M.B.A., and is now the President of Advanced Beauty College in Garden Grove, CA. This interview focused on his experiences growing up in America at a very early age and his experience going back to Vietnam later in life as someone who lives an American lifestyle. The interview also focused on his path of following his family business to become President of a top-ranked beauty college even with an M.D., as well as becoming President of several organizations reaching out to the Vietnamese American community in Southern California. He is volunteering with the 500 Oral Histories Project in order to preserve that history.
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: Photograph of Tam Nguyen, Photographer Sadegh Iranmanesh, 2012
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:39:01
Identifier: ark:/81235/d82k25
VAOHP0028_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/2079
Language: English
en
Subject: Entrepreneur | Saigon (Vietnam) | Fountain Valley, California | Activist | Business owner | College or university | Acculturation | Stereotypes | Discrimination | Identity | Family | Fort Chaffee, Arkansas | Buddhist
Time Period: 1970-1979
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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