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Title: Oral History of Nhan Thi Thanh Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Nhan Thi Thanh
Contributor: Nguyen, An Thien
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-18
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 Mrs. Nhan Nguyễn, born on December 17th, 1954 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. She identifies as a Roman Catholic. She attended a Catholic congregation and school. Alongside her education in Vietnam, Nhan worked in her grandfather’s farm every summer. In 1974, she enrolled in Trường Cao Đẳng Sư Phạm college to obtain her teaching credentials. Alongside her college education, she taught kindergarten students basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. Following the fall of Saigon, she, unfortunately, had to withdraw from college and move to a rural village to assist her grandfathers in the rice fields. She discussed her experiences living in South Vietnam following 1975 and the difficult circumstances she faced to escape. She discussed how she left Vietnam with her younger sister by boat and her arrival at the refugee camp in Palawan, Philippines. She elaborated on her interview experience where she was selected to immigrate to America since there was a prioritization of family reunification. Her younger brother was already residing in the United States. She arrived in the U.S. in August 1989 to Dublin, California where she lived with her older brother. After one month, Nhan left to Los Angeles, California to live with her older sister where she found her first job at the Broadway Warehouse in the jewelry inventory department while attending Los Angeles Trade Tech College. After getting married, she had three children. To raise her children, she became a nail technician. Now, she currently resides in Riverside, California.
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.
Type: sound
Format: 2 mp3 audio files; 2 pdf transcriptions English; 2 pdf transcriptions Vietnamese; 1 pdf life map; 1 pdf time log; 6 jpg image files
Extent: 39:12
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8hv7v
VAOHP0368
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14620
Language: English
en
Subject: Acculturation | Catholic | College | Family Reunification | Family
Time Period: 1950-1959
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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