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Title
Oral History of Hue Minh Truong
Creator
Truong, Hue Minh
Contributor
Diep, Howard Minh
Date Created and/or Issued
2012-02-17
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: An oral history with Hue Minh Truong, a refugee of the Vietnam War and for Bank of America teller, now a lunch lady at San Diego Unified School District. This interview focused on her experiences as a first generation Vietnamese American and focuses on her experiences during the Vietnam War and her journey in assimilating to the United States. She is volunteering with the Vietnamese American Oral History Project in order to preserve that history.
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: Photo description: Hue Minh Truong, Photographer SDUSD, 09-10 school year
Type
sound
Format
1 mp3 audio file; 1 pdf transcription English; 1 pdf field notes English; 1 pdf time log English; 3 jpg image files
Extent
00:51:24
Identifier
ark:/81235/d8c269
VAOHP0023_P01.jpg
http://hdl.handle.net/10575/1642
Language
English
en
Subject
Chinese and ethnic Chinese | San Diego, California | Tradition or custom | Family | Buddhist | Farming | Boat People | Refugee camp (Indonesia) | Refugee camp (Singapore) | Employment | Citizenship | Little Saigon (Orange County, California)
Time Period
1950-1959
Relation
Vietnamese American Experience Classes Oral Histories, 2012 Winter

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