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Title: Oral History of Keith Ky Thanh Van
Creator: Van, Keith Ky Thanh
Contributor: Vo Dang, Thuy
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-08-08
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 Mr. Keith KyThanh Van, born in 1953 in Hanoi, Vietnam but migrated to Saigon after the Geneva Accord in 1954. He grew up in Saigon. His father was part of the Viet Minh and worked in civil service. He was able to study abroad at McGilll University in Canada in the 1972 and acquired his Masters degree in 1976. As an international student, he was already outside the country when the Vietnam War ended. He eventually moved down from Canada and resettled permanently in Orange County, Calfornia where he met and married his wife. They have 6 children. He designed, patented and manufactured avionics parts and established his company, Ameri-King, in Huntington Beach, California.
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: Photograph of Keith Van, Photographer Thuy Vo Dang, 2012, Huntington Beach, California.
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf transcription English; 3 jpg image files
Extent: 01:36:36
Identifier: ark:/81235/d80j0f
VAOHP0084_P01.JPG
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/5248
Language: Vietnamese
vi
English
en
Subject: Business | College or university | Colonialism | Communism | Education | English as a second language (ESL) | Family | Family reunification | Identity | International student | Resettlement | Tradition or custom | Little Saigon (Orange County, California) | Orange County, California | Ha Noi (Vietnam) | Saigon (Vietnam)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Thuy Vo Dang Oral Histories

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