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Title: Oral History of Minh Ngoc Tran
Creator: Tran, Minh Ngoc
Contributor: Tran, Kevin
Date Created and/or Issued: 2019-02-17
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: The oral history by Mr. Minh Ngoc Tran who was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam 1963. He immigrated to the U.S. after he escaped Vietnam and settled at a refugee camp in Indonesia. He had some secondary education in Vietnam and had two years of college at Fullerton college under electronics. He started in America with many menial jobs such as being a dishwasher, and eventually became a system technician and then an electrician. Some significant accomplishments he made include escaping Vietnam by boat, sponsoring over his family, moving to the U.S., and securing a well-paying job. He’s married to his wife Dao Thi Tran, and had has three boys. He now resides in Eastvale, 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.
Scope/Content: Minh Tran, photographer Kevin Tran, 2019.
Type: sound
Format: 1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription Vietnamese; 1 pdf time log; 1 pdf life map; 1 jpg image file
Extent: 01:30:18
Identifier: ark:/81235/d80278
VAOHP0379
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/14634
Language: Vietnamese
vi
Time Period: 1960-1969
Relation: Vietnamese American Experience Class Oral Histories, 2019 Winter

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