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Title: Oral History of Cuong Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Cuong
Contributor: Nguyen, Adrienne
Date Created and/or Issued: 2012-11-27
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 Mr. Cường Nguyễn, a project manager for IBM, who arrived in the United States as a boat person in 1979. This interview focused particularly on his experience after the fall of Saigon in 1975, his time in reeducation camps, his thoughts about the state of Vietnam then and now, and how it connects to his thoughts about being a citizen of the United States.
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 Cuong Nguyen, Photographer Adrienne Nguyen, 2012, Irvine, Calif
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: 01:37:55
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8vn9n
VAOHP0099_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/5911
Language: English
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Subject: Anticommunism | Boat People | College or university | Communism | Education | Employment | Engineer | Family | Freedom of speech | High school | Human rights | Immigrant | Marriage | Naturalization | Reeducation camp | Sponsors or sponsorship | Tradition or custom | Vietnam War | Little Saigon (Orange County, California)
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Fall

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