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Title: Oral History of Tu Nguyen
Creator: Nguyen, Tu
Contributor: Song, Woojin
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-23
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 Ms. Tu Nguyen, born in 1988 in Vietnam. Her father fled to Malaysia as a boat person when she was young but came back to Vietnam around the year 1995. Her whole family—both parents, three sisters and four brothers—moved to the US around the year 1997, through the refugee program arranged by the UN, supported by her aunt living in Chicago. She spent her teenage years in Chicago, dropped out of high school, and studied in the community college in Chicago from 2009. She moves to San Diego, California in 2011, mainly because of her partner at the time. She went to the community college there, too. She went to the University of California, Irvine in 2013, and starts her art practice there. She currently lives in Long Beach, California, working as a videographer in a company, while working as a conceptual artist at the same time.
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.
Scope/Content: Tu's art (1).
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 2 jpg image files
Extent: 01:27:43
Identifier: ark:/81235/d8g267
VAOHP0376
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14628
Language: English
en
Subject: Art | Artist | Boat people | Catholic | College | University | Death | Diaspora | Filmmaker | Immigrant | Refugee Camp (Malaysia) | San Diego | University of California, Irvine | UN Refugee Program
Time Period: 1980-1989
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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